A World Series for Learning Psychologists

Reviews the book, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, Volume Five edited by Gordon H. Bower (see record 1974-02279-000). The present volume is the fifth in a series of monographs that began in 1967 under the editorship of Kenneth W. Spence and Janet Taylor Spence. The reports were to be representative of the broad spectrum of topics that are loosely assembled under the heading of learning and motivation. Volume 5 has increased the diversification by including reports on a new "look for Hull-Spence conditioning theory (G. Robert Grice), an integration of a variety of disparate operant conditioning phenomena (H. S. Terrace), and a nonassociative analysis of verbal learning's hoary serial learning task (Sheldon M. Ebenholtz). At the same time, the volume has intensified the memory imbalance by having all three of the remaining reports (Murray Glanzer, John R. Anderson, and Bennett B. Murdock, Jr.) center on some aspect of memory. This volume is a worthy addition to what has been a significant series. Several reports in past volumes have greatly influenced subsequent researchers. This reviewer believes that of the present group the reports by Murdock and Terrace are most likely to attain comparable status. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)