Learning
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Learning
Prentice-Hall, c1992
3rd ed
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- : pbk
Available at 26 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Emphasizing research findings rather than just theories, the third edition of this text surveys the major areas of the psychology of learning. It provides a balanced treatment of animal learning and conditioning with human learning and memory - ranging from instinctive behaviour and reflexes to problem solving and cognition. Catania uses experimental data to illustrate the relevance of basic principles to important human concepts, such as language, memory, self-awareness, freedom of choice and self-control. New features include full chapters, one on evolution and behaviour and one on social learning. Greater emphasis is placed upon such topics as animal cognition, ethology and foraging theory, higher-order classes of behaviour, equivalence classes and biological constraints on learning.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Behaviour without learning: evolution and behaviour
- elicited and emitted behaviour. Part 2 Learning without words: consequences of responding - aversive control
- operants - the selection of behaviour
- discriminated operants - stimulus control
- reinforcement schedules
- respondent behaviour - conditioning
- social learning. Part 3 Learning with words: verbal behaviour - language functions
- psycholinguistics - language structure
- verbal learning and transfer
- remembering
- cognition and problem solving. Part 4 Conclusion: structure and function in learning.
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