Learning and Memory From Brain to Behavior

by Gluck, Mark A.; Mercado, Eduardo; Myers, Catherine E.

• ISBN13: 9781429240147
• ISBN10: 1429240148
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-01-07
• Publisher: Worth Publishers

Summary

Gluck, Mercado and Myers’ breakthrough first edition brought a long overdue modern perspective to the learning and memory textbook.  It was the first book for the course developed from page one to account for the growing importance of neuroscience in the field, the first to compare brain studies and behavioral approaches in human and other animal species, and the first available in full-color throughout.

 

Rigorously updated, with a convenient new modular format, Learning and Memory, Second Edition, is unmatched at showing students where the study of learning and memory is and where it is heading. Requiring no prerequisite coursework, it connects learning, memory, and neuroscience in a way that fits your classroom.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION MODULE
1.  The Psychology of Learning and Memory
2.  The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

 

LEARNING MODULE
3.  Habituation, Sensitization, and Familiarization:
     Learning about Repeated Events
4.  Classical Conditioning: Learning to Predict Important Events
5.  Operant Conditioning: Learning the Outcome of Behaviors
6.  Generalization and Discrimination Learning
 
MEMORY MODULE
7.  Semantic and Episodic Memory: Memory for Facts and Events
8.  Skill Memory: Learning by Doing
9.  Working Memory and Cognitive Control

 

INTEGRATIVE TOPICS MODULE
10. Emotional Influences on Learning and Memory
11. Social Learning and Memory: Observing, Interacting, and Reenacting
12. Development and Aging: Learning and Memory across the Lifespan