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Human Learning and Memory

This innovative textbook is the ﬁrst to integrate learning and

memory, behavior, and cognition. It focuses on fascinating human

research in both memory and learning (while also bringing in

important animal studies) and brings the reader up to date with the

latest developments in the subject. Students are encouraged to think

critically: key theories and issues are looked at in detail; descriptions

of experiments include why they were done and how examining the

method can help evaluate competing viewpoints. By looking at

underlying cognitive processes, students come away with a sense of

learning and memory being interrelated actions taken by the same

human being, rather than two separate activities. Lively and engaging

writing is supported by lots of examples of practical applications that

show the relevance of lab-based research to everyday life. Examples

include treatments for phobias and autism, ways to improve

eyewitness testimony, and methods of enhancing study techniques.

David A. Lieberman was an undergraduate at Columbia and received

his PhD from Brown. He taught for four years at the University of

Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he was twice selected as the

“most stimulating” teacher in psychology in University polls of

graduating seniors. He moved to the University of Stirling in

Scotland where his course on learning received the highest student

ratings of any course in psychology. He served two terms as

Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ,

and was one of two psychology members of the SERC panel that

awarded research grants in psychology. He is the author of Learning

and the Control of Behavior , Learning: Behavior and Cognition , and

Learning and Memory .

Human Learning

and Memory

David A. Lieberman