The psychology of learning and motivation. Volume sixty four / edited by Brian H. Ross, Beckman Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

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1. Beyond Born vs. Made: A New Look at Expertise; David Z. Hambrick, Brooke N. Macnamara, Guillermo Campitelli, Fredrik Ullén, & Miriam A. Mosing; 2. Explaining the Basic-Level Concept Advantage in Infants... Or is it the Superordinate-Level Advantage?; Gregory L. Murphy; 3. Believing that Humans Swallow Spiders in Their Sleep: False Beliefs as Side Effects of the Processes that Support Accurate Knowledge; Elizabeth J. Marsh Allison D. Cantor & Nadia Brashier; 4. The Role of Stimulus Structure in Human Memory; Robert L. Greene; 5. The Role of Motor Action in Memory for Objects and Words; René Zeelenberg & Diane Pecher; 6. Understanding Central Processes: the Case Against Simple Stimulus-Response Associations and for Complex Task Representation; Eliot Hazeltine & Eric H. Schumacher; 7. What Dot-Based Masking Effects can Tell us About Visual Cognition: A Selective Review of Masking Effects at the Whole-Object and Edge-Based Levels; Todd A. Kahan; 8. Technology-Based Support for Older Adult Communication in Safety-Critical Domains; Daniel Morrow

Summary: 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 thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 64 includes chapters on such varied topics as causal reasoning, the role of affordances in memory, technology-based support for older adult communication in safety-critical domains and what edge-based masking effects can tell us about cognition.

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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 thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 64 includes chapters on such varied topics as causal reasoning, the role of affordances in memory, technology-based support for older adult communication in safety-critical domains and what edge-based masking effects can tell us about cognition.

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