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John F. Hall, The Psychology of Learning (1966), provides a comprehensive account of the empirical data that theories of learning are designed to integrate. Ernest R. Hilgard and Gordon H. Bower, Theories of Learning, 5th ed. (1981), is the standard reference on this subject. Ernest R. Hilgard and Donald G. Marquis, Hilgard and Marquis’ Conditioning and Learning, 2nd ed. rev. by Gregory A. Kimble (1961), describes theoretical issues as they apply to simple learning. The separate articles reproduced in Gregory A. Kimble (ed.), Foundations of Conditioning and Learning (1967), develop some of these arguments in more detail and also present synopses of the theoretical positions of Hull, Guthrie, and Tolman. Gregory A. Kimble, Norman Garmezy, and Edward Zigler, Principles of Psychology, 6th ed. (1984), is a general textbook that covers several theoretical issues and should be particularly useful on the topics of memory and retrieval. William Bechtel and Adele Abrahamsen, Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Networks (1991), gives an overview of connectionist theory and higher-level cognitive processing. David E. Rumelhart et al., Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, 2 vol. (1986), is a landmark collection of articles on the connectionist theory of learning. Philip Johnson-Laird, The Computer and the Mind, 2nd rev. ed. (1993), provides an easy introduction to cognitive science.

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