Psychology of Learning and Motivation

1st Edition - December 18, 2013

Editor: Brian H. Ross

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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.

Contributors
Chapter One. The Middle Way: Finding the Balance between Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 What are the Costs of Mind-Wandering?
3 Mindfulness: An Antidote for Mind-Wandering?
4 Benefits of Mind-Wandering
5 Conclusions: Finding the Right Balance
Acknowledgments
References

Chapter Two. What Intuitions Are… and Are Not

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Intuitions as Type 1 Judgments
3 Intuitions as Memories
4 Intuitions as Metacognition
5 Intuitions as Feelings
6 Summary
Acknowledgment
References
Further reading

Chapter Three. The Sense of Recognition during Retrieval Failure: Implications for the Nature of Memory Traces

Abstract
1 Introduction: The Sense of Recognition During Retrieval Failure
2 On the Nature of Memory Traces: “Feature Bundles”
3 The Recognition Without Cued Recall Phenomenon
4 Support for a Feature-Matching Theory of Recognition Without Cued Recall
5 What is a Feature?
6 More Complex Situations of Recognition During Retrieval Failure
7 Cases Where Recognition Does Not Occur During Retrieval Failure
8 Conclusions and Implications for the Nature of Memory Traces
9 Limitations and Future Directions
Acknowledgments
References

Chapter Four. About Practice: Repetition, Spacing, and Abstraction

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 The Distribution of Practice: Preliminary Issues
3 Possible Mechanisms of Distributed-Practice Effects
4 Rehearsal
5 Same Versus Different Context
6 Automaticity and Age
7 Automaticity and the Type of Memory Task
8 Trace Interactions in Repetition
9 The Spacing Function and the Retention Interval
10 Retrieval Effects and Practice
11 Distributed Practice and Inductive Learning
12 Reconsidering Theories of Distributed-Practice Effects
13 Summary and Conclusions
References
Further reading

Chapter Five. The Rise and Fall of the Recent Past: A Unified Account of Immediate Repetition Paradigms

Abstract
1 Introduction: The Trade-off Between Integration and Separation
2 Marr's Levels of Explanation: From Bayes to Habituation
3 Results: Words, Faces, Places, and Semantics
4 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References

Chapter Six. Does the Concept of Affordance Add Anything to Explanations of Stimulus–Response Compatibility Effects?

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Information Processing and SRC
3 Ecological Approach to Perception
4 Affordance Accounts of SRC Effects
5 Ecological Affordance Accounts of SRC Effects
6 Representational Affordance Accounts of SRC Effects
7 Conclusion
References

Chapter Seven. The Function, Structure, Form, and Content of Environmental Knowledge

Abstract
1 Function
2 Structure
3 Form
4 Content
5 Conclusions
References

Chapter Eight. The Control of Visual Attention: Toward a Unified Account

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Learning Attentional Control Settings: Experiments 1a and 1b
3 Introduction of a Distracter After Task Learning: Experiments 2a and 2b
4 The Effect of Introducing New Distracters: Experiment 3
5 Are Previous Control Settings Retained or Lost? Experiment 4
6 Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References

Index
Contents of Previous Volumes