Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis - Rilegato

Bouton, Mark E.

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ISBN 10: 0878930639 ISBN 13: 9780878930630

Casa editrice: Sinauer Associates Inc, 2007

Riassunto

Providing a strong background in modern learning and behavior theory, this book reflects the importance of the study of animal learning in psychology. Written by a leading researcher in the field, topics covered include learning and adaptation, modern conditioning theories, memory retrieval, instrumental learning, avoidance learning and learned helplessness. Lively and current, "Learning and Behavior" engages students while illustrating the interconnectedness and excitement of modern research.

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L'autore

MARK E. BOUTON is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont, USA, and a leading researcher in the field of animal learning, cognition, and behavior. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a James McKeen Cattell Scholar, a University Scholar at the University of Vermont, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, and was Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, the field's most prestigious journal, from 1998 until 2003. He has taught an up-to-date course in Learning for 26 years, which is now given away in his book.

Contenuti

LEARNING THEORY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT GOT THIS WAY
Philosophical Roots
Biological Roots
A Science of Learning and Behavior
Tools for Analyzing Learning and Behavior
Summary
LEARNING AND ADAPTATION
Evolution and Behavior
Adaptation in Instrumental Conditioning
Adaptation in Classical Conditioning
Other Parallels between Signal and Response Learning
Summary
THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF CONDITIONING
The Basic Conditioning Experiment
Methods for Studying Classical Conditioning
Things That Affect the Strength of Conditioning
Conditioned Inhibition
Information Value in Conditioning
Summary
THEORIES OF CONDITIONING
The Rescorla-Wagner Model
Some Problems with the Rescorla-Wagner Model
The Role of Attention in Conditioning
Short-Term Memory and Learning
Nodes, Connections, and Conditioning
Summary
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BEHAVIOR, ANYWAY?
Memory and Learning
The Modulation of Behavior
Understanding the Nature of the Conditioned Response
Summary
ARE THE LAWS OF CONDITIONING GENERAL?
Everything You Know is Wrong
Special Characteristics of Flavor Aversion Learning
Some Reasons Why Learning Laws May Be General
Associative Learning in Honey Bees and Humans
Conclusion
Summary
BEHAVIOR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Basic Tools and Issues
The Relationship between Behavior and Payoff
Theories of Reinforcement
Summary
HOW STIMULI GUIDE INSTRUMENTAL ACTION
Introduction
Categorization and Discrimination
Basic Processes of Generalization and Discrimination
Another Look at the Information Processing System
The Cognition of Time
The Cognition of Space
Summary
THE MOTIVATION OF INSTRUMENTAL ACTION
How Motivational States Affect Behavior
Anticipating Reward and Punishment
Dynamic Effects of Motivating Stimuli
Summary
A SYNTHETIC PERSPECTIVE ON INSTRUMENTAL ACTION
Avoidance Learning
Parallels in Appetitive Learning
A Cognitive Analysis of Instrumental Action
Summary

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Sinauer Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0878930639
• ISBN 13: 9780878930630
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 482
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile