The Psychology of Learning and Motivation Advances in Research and Theory [Hardcover]

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. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work.M. Rinck and G. Bower, Goal-Based Accessibility of Entities Within Mental Models.
R.A. Zwaan, The Immersed Experiencer: Toward an Embodied Theory of Language Comprehension.
G.S. Dell and J.M. Sullivan, Speech Errors and Language Production: Neuropsychological and Connectionist Perspectives.
J.K> Bock, Psycholinguistically Speaking: Some Matters of Meaning, Marking, and Morphing.
R.W. Engle and M.J. Kane, Executive Attention, Working Memory Capacity, and a Two-Factor Theory of cognitive Control.
C. Green and J.E. Hummel, Relational Perception and Cognition: Implications for Cognitive Architecture and the Perceptual-Cognitive Interface.
K. Lamberts, An Exemplar Model for Perceptual Categorization of Events.
Y. Kareev, On the Perception of Consistency.
S. Sloman and D. Lagnado, Causal Invariance in Reasoning and Learning.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 PsychologlCs