The psychology of learning and motivation advances in research and theory. / Volume 18 / :

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Psychology of learning and motivation.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Bower, Gordon H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Orlando : Academic Press, 1984.
Series:Psychology of learning and motivation ; v.18.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; The Psychology of Learning and Motivation; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; CHAPTER 1. NONANALYTIC COGNITION: MEMORY, PERCEPTION, AND CONCEPT LEARNING; I. Introduction; II. The Parallel between Perceptual, Categorical, and Episodic Memory Tasks; III. Nonanalytic Processing in Explicit Episodic Memory Tasks; IV. Summary and Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 2. ON THE NATURE OF CATEGORIES; I. Introduction; II. Models of Categorization; III. The Components of Categorization; IV. Variable Manipulation; V. The Handyman Space: Ill-Defined Problems with Well-Defined Boundaries
  • VI. Internal Composition of CategoriesVII. A Taxonomy of Categories; VIII. Stimulus Sampling and the Evolution of Concepts; References; CHAPTER 3. THE RECOVERY OF UNCONSCIOUS (INACCESSIBLE) MEMORIES: LABORATORY STUDIES OF HYPERMNESIA; I. Hypermnesia for Subliminal Inputs; II. Hypermnesia for Subliminal (Inaccessible) Memories; References.; CHAPTER 4. ORIGINS OF BEHAVIOR IN PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING; I. Introduction; II. A Synthetic View of Conditioned Behavior; III. Accounts of the Origins of Conditioned Behavior; IV. Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 5. DIRECTED FORGETTING IN CONTEXT
  • I. IntroductionII. Stimulus Control of Rehearsal; III. Surprising versus Expected Sample Stimuli; IV. Primacy and Recency in Animal Memory; V. The Updating of Animal Memory; VI. An Attentional Theory of Directed Forgetting; VII. Retrieval in Short-Term Memory; VIII. The Behavioral Context Hypothesis; IX. The F-Cue Function in Context; X. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 6. EFFECTS OF ISOLATION REARING ON LEARNING BY MAMMALS; I. Introduction; II. Theoretical Issues; III. Dependent Variables: Isolate Performance on Learning Tasks; IV. Independent Variables; V. Conclusions; References
  • CHAPTER 7. ARISTOTLE'S LOGICI. Introduction; II. How Many Syllogisms Are Valid ?; III. Theories of the Psychology of Syllogistic Reasoning; IV. The Reasoner versus the Logic; V. Summary; References; CHAPTER 8. SOME EMPIRICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR A THEORY OF NATURAL PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC; I. Introduction; II. Method; III. Results; IV. Discussion; V. Summary; VI. Appendix: The Problems of Rating Study 2; References; Index; Contents of Previous Volumes