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Lieberman, David A. – Cambridge University Press, 2012
This innovative textbook is the first to integrate learning and memory, behaviour, and cognition. It focuses on fascinating human research in both memory and learning (while also bringing in important animal studies) and brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in the subject. Students are encouraged to think critically: key…
Descriptors: Memory, Learning Processes, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Nevin, John A.; Davison, Michael; Odum, Amy L.; Shahan, Timothy A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
A theory of attending and reinforcement in conditional discriminations (Nevin, Davison, & Shahan, 2005) is extended to working memory in delayed matching to sample by adding terms for disruption of attending during the retention interval. Like its predecessor, the theory assumes that reinforcers and disruptors affect the independent probabilities…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Attention, Reinforcement, Short Term Memory