Learning and Memory

ISBN-13: 9781108450737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 534 str.

David A. Lieberman

Opis

A stimulating introduction to human learning and memory, written in a lively style to engage students in critical thinking.

Recenzje

'This undergraduate textbook is remarkable. To my knowledge no other book provides such a comprehensive coverage of the topics of learning and memory. Moreover, this unique breadth of coverage has not been gained by treating topics superficially. Quite the contrary, from start to finish readers are provided with a detailed understanding of all the major issues that have confronted the study of learning and memory. Finally, the foregoing achievements are crowned by the wonderful manner in which the book is written. The reader is treated as an equal to the author, and even complex issues, such as formal models of learning, are presented in a clear and engaging manner that sets this book head and shoulders above other undergraduate texts on learning and memory.' Professor John Pearce, Cardiff University, Fellow of the Royal Society

Spis treści

Part I. Learning: 1. Core Assumptions; 2. Classical Conditioning; 3. Conditioning Principles and Theories; 4. Conditioning Applications; 5 Reinforcement; 6. Reinforcement Applications; 7. Punishment; 8. Theories of Reinforcement; Part II. Memory: 9. Memory: An Introduction; 10. Working Memory; 11. Long-term Memory; 12. Retrieval; 13. Applications; Part III. Neural Foundations: 14. From Neurons to Neural Networks.

O autorze

Lieberman, David A. David A. Lieberman was an undergraduate at Columbia University and received his Ph.D. from Brown University. He taught for four years at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he was twice selected as the 'most stimulating' teacher in psychology in university polls of graduating seniors. He then moved to the University of Stirling in Scotland where his course on learning received the highest student ratings of any course in psychology. He served two terms as Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and was one of only two psychology members of the SERC panel - the UK equivalent of the US National Science Foundation - that awarded research grants in psychology. He is the author of Learning and the Control of Behavior (1974), Learning: Behavior and Cognition (1999), and Human Learning and Memory (2012).