The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Categories in Use (Volume 47) (Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 47) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0125433476 ISBN 13: 9780125433471

Publisher: Academic Press, 2006

Synopsis

Volume 47 of The Psychology of Learning and Motivation offers a discussion of the different factors that influence one's development as a mature and capable person. This is the latest release in this well-received and highly credible series of publications.

Broad topics including linguistics, the art of design, categorization of the social world, conversation, and classification are explored to provide the reader with an understanding of these steps one must take during his or her personal and social development. This title is a valuable resource for both psychology researchers and their students.

*Each of the seven chapters offers an in depth discussion of important influences on learning and motivation
*Diverse topics are discussed at length
*A great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students

About this title

Book Description:

An analysis of different learning and motivation forces at work

From the Back Cover:

Categories support a variety of cognitive activities including inference, problem solving, explanation, and communication.Yet research on categories in cognitive psychology has primarily focused on the learning of categories from unstructured lists of features. This restricted focus has left unexplored the other ways in which categories may be learned and used. Categories in Use considers category learning across a variety of domains including social relationships, money, linguistic structures, engineering innovation, visual object recognition, and referential communication. The goal of the book is to look beyond boundaries of typical studies of categorization to understand how categories are used when people do not necessarily realize that they are using categories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0125433476
• ISBN 13: 9780125433471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Markman Arthur