Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
es are used when people do not necessarily realize that they are using categories.
Synopsis
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 the Author
Brian Ross received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982. He is a professor in the UIUC Department of Psychology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group. His fields of professional interest are cognitive psychology, human memory and learning, problem solving, acquisition of cognitive skills, remindings in learning and problem solving, and concepts and categories. Honors and awards: Arnold O. Beckman Research Award (1991, 1982); Beckman Fellow, UIUC Center for Advanced Study (1985-86); Sigma Xi.Brian Ross received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982. He is a professor in the UIUC Department of Psychology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group. His fields of professional interest are cognitive psychology, human memory and learning, problem solving, acquisition of cognitive skills, remindings in learning and problem solving, and concepts and categories. Honors and awards: Arnold O. Beckman Research Award (1991, 1982); Beckman Fellow, UIUC Center for Advanced Study (1985-86); Sigma Xi.
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Relations and Categories
Viviana A. Zelizer and Charles Tilly
Chapter 2
Learning Linguistic Patterns
Adele E. Goldberg
Chapter 3
Understanding the Art of Design: Tools for the Next Edisonian Innovators
Kristin L. Wood and Julie S. Linsey
Chapter 4
Categorizing the Social World: Affect, Motivation, and Self-Regulation
Galen V. Bodenhausen, Andrew R. Rodd and Andrew P. Becker
Chapter 5
Reconsidering the Role of Structure in Vision
Elan Barenholtz and Michael J. Tarr
Chapter 6
Conversation as a Site of Category Learning and Category Use
Dale J. Barr and Edmundo Kronmuller
Chapter 7
Using Classification to Understand the Motivation-Learning Interface
W. Todd Maddox, Arthur B. Markman and Grant C. Baldwin