Chapter 8 Outline

Categorization and Discrimination

  • Trees, water, and Margaret
  • Other categories
  • How do they do it?

Basic Processes of Generalization and Discrimination

  • The generalization gradient
  • Interactions between gradients
  • Perceptual learning
  • Mediated generalization and acquired equivalence
  • Conclusion

Another Look at the Information Processing System

  • Visual perception in pigeons
  • Attention
  • Working memory
  • Reference memory

The Cognition of Time

  • Time of day cues
  • Interval timing
  • How do they do it?

The Cognition of Space

  • Cues that guide spatial behavior
  • Spatial learning in the radial maze and water maze
  • How do they do it?

Metacognition

  • How do they do it?
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