The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work. Volume 31 covers children's representations of groups, diagnostic reasoning in medical expertise, and object representation
Includes bibliographical references and index
Associative representations of instrumental contingencies / Ruth M. Colwill -- A behavioral analysis of concepts : its application to pigeons and children / Edward A. Wasserman and Suzette L. Astley -- The child's representation of human groups / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- Diagnostic reasoning and medical expertise / Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and David R. Kaufman -- Object shape, object name, and object kind : representation and development / Barbara Landau -- The ontogeny of part representation in object concepts / Philippe G. Schyns and Gregory L. Murphy