Book description
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 71, the latest release in the series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem-solving. New to this volume are chapters covering Automating adaptive control with item-specific learning, Cognition and voting: Generalizing from the laboratory to the real-world voting booth, Protracted perceptual development of auditory pattern structure, Understanding alcohol reward in social context, Perceptual and Mnemonic Differences across Cultures, Aging, Cognitive Reserve and the Healthy Brain, Aging, context processing, and comprehension, and more.
- Presents the latest information in the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series
- Provides an essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science
- Contains information relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter One: Automating adaptive control with item-specific learning
- Chapter Two: Two-way translation: Advancing knowledge of politics and psychology via the study of bilingual voters
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Chapter Three: Protracted perceptual learning of auditory pattern structure in spoken language
- Abstract
- 1 Learning rapidly? Perceptual precocity
- 2 Learning slowly? Protracted perceptual learning
- 3 Goals of chapter
- 4 Evidence for early learning
- 5 Why the story is wrong (even though the evidence is right)
- 6 My own research: Perceptual immaturity persists into early childhood
- 7 Alternative explanations for age-related changes in performance
- 8 Possible approaches to studying protracted perceptual learning
- 9 Open questions
- 10 Summary and conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Four: Understanding social factors in alcohol reward and risk for problem drinking
- Chapter Five: Perceptual and mnemonic differences across cultures
- Chapter Six: Aging, neurocognitive reserve, and the healthy brain
- Chapter Seven: Aging, context processing, and comprehension
- Chapter Eight: Speaking waves: Neuronal oscillations in language production
- Chapter Nine: Memory influences visual cognition across multiple functional states of interactive cortical dynamics
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Chapter Ten: Adaptation for growth as a common goal throughout the lifespan: Why and how
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Learning and cognitive growth in infancy and childhood
- 3 Cognitive growth across the lifespan
- 4 Extending CALLA to include adaptation for growth in a dynamic environment
- 5 Building on positive cognitive aging approaches
- 6 Anecdotal evidence on learning new skills in adulthood
- 7 Implications and future directions
- 8 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
Product information
- Title: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2019
- Publisher(s): Academic Press
- ISBN: 9780128171769
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