Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory

Zusammenfassung This work offers information on recent advances in the psychology of learning and motivation. Among the topics covered are the deriving of categories to achieve goals, the application of category knowledge in unsupervised domains and spatial mental models. 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.

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• Authors: Cook, Jr. Cook
• Assisted by: Gordon H. Bower (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.1991
• EAN: 9780125433273
• ISBN: 978-0-12-543327-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Psychology of Learning & Motiv; Psychology of Learning and Motivation; Psychology of Learning & Motiv
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology