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Psychology of Learning and Motivation

Advances in Research and Theory

  • 1st Edition, Volume 27 - October 10, 1991
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gordon H. Bower
  • Language: English

Readership

Researchers and graduate students in cognitive science and neuroscience.

Table of contents

L.W. Barsalou, Deriving Categories to Achieve Goals.
J.P. Clapper and G.H. Bower, Learning and Applying Category Knowledge in Unsupervised Domains.
B. Tversky, Spatial Mental Models.
T.P. McNamara, Memory's View of Space.
E.F. Loftus, Made in Memory: Distortions in Recollection after Misleading Information.
M.A. Gernsbacher, Cognitive Processes and Mechanisms in Language Comprehension: The Structure Building Framework.
J.E.R. Staddon and J.J. Higa, Temporal Learning.
P.R. Killeen, Behavior's Time.
Index.
Contents of Recent Volumes.

Review quotes

"Indispensable to all psychologists interested in the experimental study of the phenomena of learning and motivation."—BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY

"Provides a diverse sampling of research being conducted throughout the area of learning."—CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 27
  • Published: December 2, 1991
  • Language: English

About the editor

GB

Gordon H. Bower

Affiliations and expertise
Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A.

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