This book deals with the conditions and the consequences of the production of different syntactic sentence structures. During the sixties the syntactic structure of sentences was one of the most intensively studied topics in psycholinguistic research. The dominant interest did not, however, lie in the function of syntactic structures but in the ability to understand and to utter them. Later, in the seventies the interest shifted to the semantic structure of sentences. Many studies centred around the structural aspects of the repre sentation of knowledge. The leading question was: how can the...

The locus of concreteness effects in memory for verbal materials has been described here in terms of the processing of shared and distinctive information. This theoretical view is consistent with a variety of findings previously taken as support for dual coding, insofar as both verbal and perceptual information may be involved in comprehending high-imagery sentences and in learning lists of concrete words. But going beyond previous accounts of imagery, this view also can provide explanations for several findings that appear contradictory to the thesis that concrete and abstract materials...

Dieses Lehrbuch gibt einen Uberblick uber klassische Theorien, Modelle und Studien der Lern- und Gedachtnispsychologie. Daruber hinaus behandelt es das Thema zielgerichtetes Verhalten und wie dieses mit Lern- und Gedachtnisprozessen zusammenhangt. Es dient damit als Einfuhrung in die fur das Psychologiestudium zentrale Grundlagenforschung zu Lern- und Gedachtnisprozessen, als Vertiefungslekture in einigen ausgewahlten Teilgebieten sowie als Fundament fur die Anwendungsgebiete der Psychologie. Eine Begleit-Website auf www.lehrbuch-psychologie.de bietet Lern-Tools fur Studierende und...