Front Cover; THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MOTIVATION; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1. ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY AND THE STUDY OF CONCEPTS; I. Introduction; II. Three Disputes; III. What Is the Psychology of Concepts a Psychology of ?; IV. Capacities versus Performance Models; V. What Should We Be Trying to Explain in the Psychology of Concepts?; VI. The Missing Piece to the Puzzle; VII. What Is the Real Category Structure?; VIII. Role Models; IX. Conclusion; References; Chapter 2. SOCIAL EMBODIMENT; I. Introduction; II. Social Embodiment Effects
Chapter 7. COGNITIVE PLASTICITY AND AGINGI. Overview; II. Cognition across the Adult Life Span; III. Changes in Brain Function and Structure across the Adult Life Span; IV. Does Experience Reduce Age-Related Cognitive Decline?; V. Can Laboratory-Based Training Be Used to Reduce Age-Related Decline in Cognition, and If So, What are the Nature of These Training Benefits?; VI. Can Other Interventions Reduce Age-Related Decline in Cognition: Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?; VII. Conclusions and Future Directions; References; Index; Contents of Previous Volumes
III. A Theory of Social EmbodimentIV. Explaining Social Embodiment Effects; V. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. THE BODY'S CONTRIBUTION TO LANGUAGE; I. Introduction; II. Symbol Grounding and the Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect; III. How Language Becomes Embodied Meaning; IV. Perceptual Symbols in Language Comprehension; V. Grammatical Constructions in Language Comprehension; VI. Learning and the Indexical Hypothesis; VII. Conclusion; References; Chapter 4. USING SPATIAL LANGUAGE; I. Introduction; II. Constituent Processes during Apprehension
III. Assigning Directions to Space: Setting the ParametersIV. Generalizations and Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. IN OPPOSITION TO INHIBITION; I. Introduction; II. A ''Reader's Digest '' History of Inhibition; III. The Attention Case Studies; IV. Memory Case Studies; V. The ''Big Picture''; References; Chapter 6. EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE; I. How Information Structures Have Impelled the Evolution of Human Cognitive Architecture; II. Human Information Processing Recapitulates Evolution by Natural Selection; III. Instructional Consequences; IV. Conclusions; References
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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.