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. 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.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 AndrewsBrian 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, thel.