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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 56 includes chapters on such varied topics as emotion and memory interference, electrophysiology, mathematical cognition, and reader participation in narrative. * Volume 56 of the

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- INTRODUCTION: THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM -- What happens? The raw data of group processes -- The present vogue of group methods -- Small groups in educational context -- 1 THE PRESENT APPROACHES TO SMALL GROUP RESEARCH -- Psychoanalytic school-rationale -- Behaviourist approach-rationale -- Interaction theory-rationale -- 2 WHAT ARE THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE IN LEARNING GROUPS? -- Bales' theory of group development -- The realities of learning groups: data -- The study of an individual career in a self-analytic group -- A social systems approach to group process -- 3 SOME NOVEL GROUP METHODS -- Aims and purposes in higher education -- Methods of small group teaching -- 4 HOW DO POWER RELATIONSHIPS OPERATE WITHIN THE GROUPS? -- What constitutes power? -- What are the behavioural correlates of power? -- The distribution of power -- The three issues of power relationships -- 5 FEELINGS-IMPLICIT AND EXPRESSED -- Verbal interaction as a key to feelings -- Initial phase-orientation and adaptation to the environment -- Opening phase-looking to the trainer for familiar leadership -- Central phase-major themes -- 6 THE DYNAMIC STRUCTURE OF LEARNING GROUPS -- Role development and group structure -- The differentiated leadership roles -- 7 TEACHING AND LEARNING IN GROUPS -- The teacher in the learning group -- Authoritarian v. democratic climates -- Outcomes associated with traditional methods -- Outcomes associated with small group teaching -- An experimental study of outcomes -- Those who talk v. those who learn -- 8 DYSFUNCTIONAL PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR IN LEARNING GROUPS -- Dysfunctional trainer style -- The dysfunctional effects of defence mechanisms -- The dysfunctional effects of group silence -- The dysfunctional effects of 'bogeymen' -- Bibliography.