Learning

This book discusses the construct of ‘accelerated learning' in acquiring the knowledge, proficiency and skills to perform tasks in countless highly skilled jobs and professions. The findings will leverage technologies and capabilities including virtual training, cross-training, training across strat..

Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition emphasizes the relationship between experimental research and classical and instrumental conditioning. The text addresses classical and instrumental conditioning while stressing the definition of learning as an adaptive process through which individuals acqu..

In this special issue, we focus on associative learning of likes and dislikes, that is, changes in liking that are due to the pairing of stimuli...

Research on training programs for students with learning difficulties has usually focused on the development of social and behavioural skills and the acquisition of cognitive interventions and procedures. Originally published in 1989, this book attempts to apply the methods validated by research for..

First published in 1993, the authors of this book examine the recent literature on situated cognition in children. They explain contextual sensitivity in relation to ecological theories of cognition, and contrast intuitive reasoning in mathematical and other scientific domains with the failure of su..

First published in English in 1970, the first chapter of the book by Jean François le Ny is concerned with conditioned reactions. The second contributor, Gérard de Montpellier, looks at different types of learning. The third section of the book by Geneviève Oléron deals with the phenomenon of transf..

This volume takes a multidisciplinary perspective on generalization of knowledge from several fields associated with Cognitive Science, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Science, Education, Linguistics, Developmental Science, and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. The aim is to derive g..

Originally published in 1976, Volume 3 of this Handbook deals primarily with conditions of acquisition, retention and forgetting, and the manner in which acquired information and motivation combine to determine performance...

Taking advantage of a period of enthusiasm, this title, originally published in 1983, looks at the amalgamation of the recent advances at the time in theory and research in education and psychology, with a particular focus on cognition, motivation and social policy...

Originally published in 1979, this volume contains chapters prepared following a conference at SUNY- Binghamton in 1977. The conference was the outcome of exciting new developments that had occurred in the ontogeny of learning and memory at the time, as well as a long-standing friendship between the..

Originally published in 1974, this introductory text has been designed specifically for teachers in training, and it presents the basic psychological principles governing learning, perception, motivation and the retention of knowledge at the time...

In this landmark volume from 1976, Robert Crowder presents an organized review of the concepts that guide the study of learning and memory. The basic organization of the book is theoretical, rather than historical or methodological. Crowder presumes no prior knowledge of the subject matter on the pa..