Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, Volume 28 (Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 28)

The objective of the series has always been to provide a forum in which leading contributors to an area can write about significant bodies of research in which they are involved. The operating procedure has been to invite contributions from interesting, active investigators, and then allow them essentially free rein to present their perspectives on important research problems. The result of such invitations over the past two decades has been collections of papers which consist of thoughtful integrations providing an overview of a particular scientific problem. The series has an excellent tradition of high quality papers and is widely read by researchers incognitive and experimental psychology. The volume presents research ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Topics covered fall within a wide range of disciplines from neuroscience to artificial intelligence. Content: Edited by Page iii Copyright page Page iv Contributors Page ix Preface Pages xi-xii Douglas L. Medin Conditioned Food Preferences Original Research Article Pages 1-33 Elizabeth D. Capaldi Classical Conditioning as an Adaptive Specialization: A Computational Model Original Research Article Pages 35-67 C.R. Gallistel Occasion Setting in Pavlovian Conditioning Original Research Article Pages 69-125 Peter C. Holland Pairings in Learning and Perception: Pavlovian Conditioning and Contingent Aftereffects Original Research Article Pages 127-160 Shepard Siegel, Lorraine G. Allan Evolutionary Memories, Emotional Processing, and the Emotional Disorders Original Research Article Pages 161-206 Susan Mineka Investigations of an Exemplar-Based Connectionist Model of Category Learning Original Research Article Pages 207-250 Robert M. Nosofsky, John K. Kruschke Reconstructing the Past: Category Effects in Estimation Original Research Article Pages 251-280 Janellen Huttenlocher, Larry V. Hedges Index Pages 281-292 Contents of Recent Volumes Pages 293-296 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. Aimed at researchers and graduate students in cognitive science and neuroscience, this book presents research ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Because very young infants do not have a verbal response to tell us what they recognize, we initially teach them a motoric one-an operant foot-kick-to use instead.