ABSTRACT
First published in 1986. The main objective of this book is to provide a hard-headed theoretical integration of several different major areas of research on learning, cognition, and motivation in humans and other mammals. By hard-headed, the author simply means that the concepts were generated from empirical data and are testable. Since an integrative theory must of necessity integrate apparent diversity, such an approach involves the identification and description of the most fundamental factors (structural processes) underlying the observed capacities of humans and animals in the domain of learning and motivation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|22 pages
The Theoretical Argument
part 2|56 pages
The Information Processing Mechanism: General Processes
part 3|171 pages
The Behavioral Analysis Division of the IPM
part 4|78 pages
Memorial Processes of the IPM
part 5|62 pages
Cognitive Functions and the IPM