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Psychology of Learning and Motivation
An authoritative reference on the psychology of learning and motivation that presents empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology
Brian H. Ross (Series edited by)
9780128121184
Hardback, published 23 January 2017
320 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.7 kg
Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 66, the latest release in this longstanding series 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 66 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.
1. Cracking the Problem of Inert Knowledge: Portable Strategies to Access Distant Analogs From Memory 2. The Complexities of Learning Categories Through Comparisons 3. Progress in Modeling Through Distributed Collaboration: Concepts, Tools and Category-Learning Examples 4. Replicability, Response Bias, and Judgments, Oh My! A New Checklist for Evaluating the Perceptual Nature of Action-Specific Effects 5. The Two Faces of Selective Memory Retrieval—Cognitive, Developmental, and Social Processes 6. Prospective Memory in Context 7. What Makes Everyday Scientific Reasoning So Challenging?
Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Experimental psychology [JML]