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Psychology of Learning and Motivation
1st Edition, Volume 63 - June 3, 2015
Editor: Brian H. Ross
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780128022467
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eBook ISBN:9780128024348
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Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental condit…Read more
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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 63 includes chapters on such varied topics as memory and imagery, statistical regularities, eyewitness lineups, embodied attention, the teleological choice rule, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning and cognitive and neural components of insight.
Volume 63 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series
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Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
Researchers and students in cognitive psychology
Chapter One. Conducting an Eyewitness Lineup: How the Research Got It Wrong
1. Introduction
2. Eyewitness Reforms
3. Impact of the Reforms Misconstrued
4. Reevaluation of the Reforms
5. Foundation for Next-Generation Reforms
6. Conclusions
Chapter Two. The Role of Context in Understanding Similarities and Differences in Remembering and Episodic Future Thinking
1. Introduction
2. Episodic Future Thought: The Concept
3. Similarities in Memory-Impaired Populations
4. Conceptual Issues
5. Individual Differences within Healthy Young Adults
6. Direct Contrasts of the Phenomenology of Remembering and Future Imagining within Healthy Young Adults
7. Neural Correlates of Remembering and Episodic Future Thought
8. The Important Role of Location Familiarity in Explaining Similarities between Remembering and Episodic Future Thought
9. The Important Role of Context in Explaining Differences between Remembering and Episodic Future Thought
10. Conclusions
Chapter Three. Human Category Learning: Toward a Broader Explanatory Account
1. A Theoretical Analysis of Categorization
2. DIVA: A Connectionist Generative Approach to Category Learning
3. Challenging the Reference Point Account of TACL
4. Beyond TACL
5. A Brief Concluding Statement
Chapter Four. Choice from among Intentionally Selected Options
1. Introduction
2. The Luce Choice Rule
3. Empirical Arguments against Luce Choice
4. Social Influences on Learning
5. A Model of Choosing among Intentionally Selected Options
6. Examples, Revisited
7. Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter Five. Embodied Seeing: The Space Near the Hands
1. Introduction
2. Future Hand Movements
3. Present Hand Movements
4. Past Hand Movements
5. Defensive Behaviors versus Movement Control
6. Concluding Remarks
Chapter Six. The Analysis of Visual Cognition in Birds: Implications for Evolution, Mechanism, and Representation
1. Introduction
2. Comparative Psychology of Early Vision
3. Comparative Psychology of Emergent Stimulus Processing
4. Conclusions
Index
Contents of Previous Volumes
Volume 40
Volume 41
Volume 42
Volume 43
Volume 44
Volume 45
Volume 46
Volume 47
Volume 48
Volume 49
Volume 50
Volume 51
Volume 52
Volume 53
Volume 54
Volume 55
Volume 56
Volume 57
Volume 58
Volume 59
Volume 60
Volume 61
Volume 62
No. of pages: 238
Language: English
Edition: 1
Volume: 63
Published: June 3, 2015
Imprint: Academic Press
Hardback ISBN: 9780128022467
eBook ISBN: 9780128024348
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Brian H. Ross
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Psychology and of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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