The psychology of learning and motivation : advances in research and theory. Volume 7

Front Cover; The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Contents of Previous Volumes; Chapter 1. Grammatical Word Classes: A Learning process and Its Simulataion; Chapter 2. Reaction Time Measurements in the Study of Memory process: Theory and Data; Chapter 3. Individual Differences in Cognition: A New Approach to Intelligence; Chapter 4. Stimulus Encoding processes in Human Learning and Memory; Chapter 5. Subproblem Analysis of Discrimination Learning; Chapter 6. Delayed Matching and ShorT-Term Memory in monkeys. 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. Volume 39 includes in its coverage chapters on category learning, relational timing, infant memory, depression and memory, goals and choice, and more 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.