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The 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. Volume 49 contains chapters on short-term memory, theory and measurement of working memory capacity limits, development of perceptual grouping in infancy, co-constructing conceptual domains through family conversations and activities, the concrete substrates of abstract rule use, ambiguity, accessibility, and a division of labor for communicative success, and lexical expertise and reading skill. Zusammenfassung Covers short-term memory, theory and measurement of working memory capacity limits, and development of perceptual grouping in infancy. This book also covers co-constructing conceptual domains through family conversations and activities, the concrete substrates of abstract rule use, ambiguity, and accessibility.
List of contents
Chapter 1
Short-Term Memory: New Data and a Model
Stephan Lewandowsky and Simon Farrell
Chapter 2
Theory and Measurement of Working Memory Capacity Limits
Nelson Cowan, Candice C. Morey, Zhijian Chen, Amanda L. Gilchrist, and J. Scott Saults
Chapter 3
What Goes with What? Development of Perceptual Grouping in Infancy
Paul C. Quinn, Ramesh S. Bhatt and Angela Hayden
Chapter 4
Co-constructing Conceptual Domains Through Family Conversations and Activities
Maureen Callanan and Araceli Valle
Chapter 5
The Concrete Substrates of Abstract Rule Use
Bradley C. Love, Marc Tomlinson, and Todd M. Gureckis
Chapter 6
Ambiguity, Accessibility, and a Division of Labor for Communicative Success
Victor S. Ferreira
Chapter 7
Lexical Expertise and Reading Skill
Sally Andrews
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Praise for the Series
"A remarkable number of landmark papers... An important collection of theory and data."
--CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
