With real-world examples, fascinating applications, and clear explanations, this breakthrough text helps uninitiated students understand the basic ideas and human impact of groundbreaking learning and memory research. Its unique organization into three sections—Behavioral Processes, Brain Substrates, and Clinical Perspectives—allows students to make connections across chapters while giving instructors the flexibility to assign the material that matches the course.

The new edition again offers the book’s signature inclusion of human and non-human studies and full-color design and images. You’ll find even more meaningful real-life examples; new coverage of learning and memory research and brain-imaging; an expanded discussion of the role of genetics in producing individual differences; new material on the role of sleep in memory, and more.

Preface

Introductory Module

CHAPTER 1 Fundamental Themes in the Psychology of Learning and Memory

CHAPTER 2 The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

Learning Module

CHAPTER 3 Habituation, Sensitization, and Familiarization:

Learning About Repeated Events

CHAPTER 4 Classical Conditioning:

Learning to Predict Significant Events

CHAPTER 5 Operant Conditioning:

Learning the Outcome of Behaviors

CHAPTER 6 Generalization, Discrimination Learning, and Concept Formation

Memory Module

CHAPTER 7 Episodic and Semantic Memory:

Memory for Events and for Facts

CHAPTER 8 Skill Memory:

Learning by Doing

CHAPTER 9 Working Memory and Cognitive Control

Integrative Topics Module

CHAPTER 10 Emotional Influences on Learning and Memory

CHAPTER 11 Social Learning and Memory:

Observing, Interacting, and Reenacting

CHAPTER 12 Development and Aging:

Learning and Memory Across the Lifespan

Glossary G-1

References R-1

Name Index NI-1

Subject Index SI-1