Psychology of Learning and Motivation

Brian H. Ross is a Professor of Psychology and of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research areas have included problem solving, complex learning, categorization, reasoning, memory, and mathematical modeling. He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Institute of Education Sciences. Ross has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Memory & Cognition, Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society, and co-author of a textbook, Cognitive Psychology. He has held temporary leadership positions on the University of Illinois campus as Department Head of Psychology, Associate Dean of the Sciences, and Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ross has degrees from Brown University (B.S., Honors in Psychology), Rutgers University (M.S. in Mathematical Statistics), Yale University (M.S. in Psychology), and Stanford University (PhD.). Ross has been Editor of The Psychology of Learning and Motivation since 2000.

• 1. Descriptive and Inferential Problems of Induction: Toward a Common Framework2. What Does it Mean to be Biased: Motivated Reasoning and Rationality3. Probability Matching, Fast and Slow4. Cognition in the Attention Economy5. Memory Recruitment: A Backwards Idea about Masked Priming6. Role of Knowledge in Motion Extrapolation: The Relevance of an Approach Contrasting Experts and Novices7. Retrieval-Based Learning: An Episodic Context Account8. Consequences of Testing Memory