
Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Volume 60
Academic Press
Published on 26. February 2014
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-12-800090-8 (ISBN)
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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 60 includes chapters on such varied topics as the balance between mindfulness and mind-wandering; institutions; implications for the nature of memory traces; repetition, spacing, and abstraction; immediate repetition paradigms; stimulus-response compatibility effects; environmental knowledge; and the control of visual attention.
Volume 60 includes chapters on such varied topics as the balance between mindfulness and mind-wandering; institutions; implications for the nature of memory traces; repetition, spacing, and abstraction; immediate repetition paradigms; stimulus-response compatibility effects; environmental knowledge; and the control of visual attention.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-800090-8 (9780128000908)
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Brian H. Ross is a Professor of Psychology and of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research areas have included problem solving, complex learning, categorization, reasoning, memory, and mathematical modeling. He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Institute of Education Sciences. Ross has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Memory & Cognition, Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society, and co-author of a textbook, Cognitive Psychology. He has held temporary leadership positions on the University of Illinois campus as Department Head of Psychology, Associate Dean of the Sciences, and Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ross has degrees from Brown University (B.S., Honors in Psychology), Rutgers University (M.S. in Mathematical Statistics), Yale University (M.S. in Psychology), and Stanford University (PhD.). Ross has been Editor of The Psychology of Learning and Motivation since 2000.
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Content
1. The Middle Way: Finding the Balance Between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering
2. What Intuitions Are...and Are Not
3. The Sense of Recognition During Retrieval Failure: Implications for the Nature of Memory Traces
4. About Practice: Repetition, Spacing, and Abstraction
5. The Rise and Fall of the Recent Past: A Unified Account of Immediate Repetition Paradigms
6. Does the Concept of Affordance Add Anything to Explanations of Stimulus-Response Compatibility Effects?
7. The Function, Structure, Form, and Content of Environmental Knowledge
8. The Control of Visual Attention: Toward a Unified Account
2. What Intuitions Are...and Are Not
3. The Sense of Recognition During Retrieval Failure: Implications for the Nature of Memory Traces
4. About Practice: Repetition, Spacing, and Abstraction
5. The Rise and Fall of the Recent Past: A Unified Account of Immediate Repetition Paradigms
6. Does the Concept of Affordance Add Anything to Explanations of Stimulus-Response Compatibility Effects?
7. The Function, Structure, Form, and Content of Environmental Knowledge
8. The Control of Visual Attention: Toward a Unified Account