Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis

Bouton, Mark E.

ISBN 10: 0878930639 / ISBN 13: 9780878930630

Editore: Sinauer Associates Inc, 2006

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• Titolo: Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis
• Editore: Sinauer Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0878930639
• ISBN 13: 9780878930630
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Good

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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.

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.