Chapter 8: How Stimuli Guide Instrumental Action
Chapter 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
- Summary
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?
Summary
