The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

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Contributors

Chapter One. Learning Along With Others

1 Learning within a Community of Learners

2 Innovation Propagation in a One-dimensional Problem Space

3 Collective Learning in Higher-dimensional Problem Spaces

4 Collective Search in a Problem Space with Interactions among Solution Elements

5 Limitations, Implications, and Conclusions

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Chapter Two. Space, Time, and Story

1 Introduction: Life, Perception, and Stories

2 Perceiving the Events of Life

3 Telling the Events of Life: Word, Diagram, Gesture

4 Spraction: Space, Action, Abstraction

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Chapter Three. The Cognition of Spatial Cognition: Domain-General within Domain-specific

1 Spatial Cognition: Exploring the Domain-general in the Domain-specific

2 Spatial Cognition and Attention

3 Memory and Spatial Cognition

4 Representing Spatial Information: Embodiment

5 The Cognition of Spatial Cognition

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Chapter Four. Perceptual Learning, Cognition, and Expertise

1 Introduction

2 Perceptual Learning Effects

3 Perceptual Learning in Mathematics: An Example

4 Perception, Cognition, and Learning

5 Perceptual Learning and Instruction

6 Conclusion

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Chapter Five. Causation, Touch, and the Perception of Force

1 Introduction

2 Force-based Accounts of Causation

3 Grounding Forces in the Sense of Touch

4 Evidence for a Force-based View of Causation from Work on the Perception of Causation

5 The Sense of Force in Causal Perception and Induction

6 The Feeling of Causation in the Absence of Mechanism: A Dual Process Approach

7 Potential Problems for a Force-based View of Causation

8 Conclusions

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Chapter Six. Categorization as Causal Explanation

1 Introductory Comments

2 Previous Accounts of Categorization

3 The Present Model

4 Tests of the Predictions

5 Placing the Present Account in the Literature

6 Conclusion

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Chapter Seven. Individual Differences in Intelligence and Working Memory

1 Introduction

2 Models of Intelligence

3 Interpretation of the General Factor

4 Models of Working Memory Capacity

5 Toward a Unified Model

6 Conclusion

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Index