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Psychology of Learning and Motivation

As an authoritative reference on the psychology of learning and motivation, this book presents empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem-solving

Brian H. Ross (Series edited by)

9780128047903

Hardback, published 15 July 2016

340 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.68 kg

"...I found all of the chapters interesting…the PLM series have provided behavioral and cognitive researchers useful reviews and summaries of research as well as providing suggestions for future work. A number of landmark and influential papers have appeared in this series, and it seems that they will continue to appear." --PsycCRITIQUES

Praise for the Series: "A remarkable number of landmark papers... An important collection of theory and data." --Contemporary Psychology

Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving.

Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 65 includes chapters on such varied topics as prospective memory, metacognitive information processing, basic memory processes during reading, working memory capacity, attention, perception and memory, short-term memory, language processing, and causal reasoning.

The Many Facets of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity

Nash Unsworth

An Exemplar-Retrieval Model of Short-Term Memory Search: Linking Categorization and Probe Recognition

Robert M. Nosofsky

Hybrid Causal Representations

Michael R. Waldmann and Ralf Mayrhofer

Increased Wisdom from the Ashes of Ignorance and Surprise: Numerically-Driven Inferencing, Global Warming, and Other Exemplar Realms

Michael Andrew Ranney, Edward L. Munnich and Lee Nevo Lamprey

How Retrieval Attempts Affect Learning: A Review and Synthesis

Nate Kornell and Kalif E. Vaughn

Prediction, Information Structure, and Good Enough Language Processing

Fernanda Ferreira and Matthew W. Lowder

Separating the Activation, Integration, and Validation Components of Reading

Edward J. O’Brien and Anne E. Cook

The Politics of Attention: Differences in Visual Cognition between Liberals and Conservatives

Michael D. Dodd, John R. Hibbing and Kevin B. Smith

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Experimental psychology [JML]

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