Learning and Memory
Description
Its unique organization into three sections-Behavioral Processes, Brain Substrates, and Clinical Perspectives-allows students to make connections across chapters while giving instructors the flexibility to easily assign the material that matches their course.
The new edition again offers the book's signature inclusion of human and animal studies with an engaging full-colour design and images. You'll find even more meaningful real-life examples; new coverage of learning and memory research and brain-imaging; an expanded discussion of the role of genetics in producing individual differences; new material on the role of sleep in memory, and more.
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Persons
Eduardo Mercado is a Professor of Psychology and of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, as well as Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Catherine E. Myers is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience at the New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, as well as a Research Scientist with the Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System.
Content
Preface.- Introductory Module.- CHAPTER 1 Fundamental Themes in the Psychology of Learning and Memory.- CHAPTER 2 The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory: Learning Module.- CHAPTER 3 Habituation, Sensitization, and Familiarization: Learning About Repeated Events.- CHAPTER 4 Classical Conditioning: Learning to Predict Significant Events.- CHAPTER 5 Operant Conditioning: Learning the Outcome of Behaviors.- CHAPTER 6 Generalization, Discrimination Learning, and Concept Formation: Memory Module.- CHAPTER 7 Episodic and Semantic Memory: Memory for Events and for Facts.- CHAPTER 8 Skill Memory: Learning by Doing.- CHAPTER 9 Working Memory and Cognitive Control: Integrative Topics Module.- CHAPTER 10 Emotional Influences on Learning and Memory.- CHAPTER 11 Social Learning and Memory: Observing, Interacting, and Reenacting.- CHAPTER 12 Development and Aging: Learning and Memory Across the Lifespan.