Without losing sight of each field's historical development,
they provide modern bridges by which students can observe the
cognitive underpinnings of animal learning and the descendants of
associationism currently under scrutiny by human memory
psychologists-in short, a state-of-the-art presentation that makes
clear the commonalities (and contrasts) of human and animal
research.
Learning and Memory includes the most recent findings in the
fields: the study of choice, operant behavior and economics,
behavior theory and memory, implicit memory and unconscious memory,
connectionism, concepts and generic memory, and networks of
memories. In presenting these latest findings, the authors develop
selective lines of research rather than merely listing research
finding after research finding. This approach not only clearly
shows students which findings support (or do nor support)
hypotheses, but it also gives students a firm sense of how
experiments are conducted, and science developed.
In addition, a unique chapter, Chapter 14, "Memory and the
Decision-Making of Everyday Life," concludes the book. Drawing from
the previous chapters, it explains how normal memory processes lead
to the heuristics and strategies that guide our everyday thinking.
Taking up heuristics, representativeness, covariation detection,
and schema-based reasoning, including animal and human research,
this chapter provides even more integration of the fields.
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