Learning
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Learning
Prentice Hall, c1998
4th ed.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-450) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Designed for a one-semester course in the Psychology of Learning at the sophomore through senior level.
Emphasizing research findings and basic concepts rather than theories, this book surveys the major areas in the psychology of learning from a consistent behavioral (e.g., B.F. Skinner) point of view. Learning 4E explores the continuities between human learning and the learning of other animals. The book organizes the phenomena of learning in a systematic way, moving from Behavior Without Learning (evolution) to Learning Without Words (basics in nonhuman behavior and learning) to Learning With Words (human learning and memory).
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION.
1. Learning and Behavior.
2. A Behavior Taxonomy.
II. BEHAVIOR WITHOUT LEARNING.
3. Evolution and Behavior.
4. Elicited and Emitted Behavior.
III. LEARNING WITHOUT WORDS.
5. Consequences of Responding: Reinforcement.
6. Consequences of Responding: Aversive Control.
7. Operants: The Selection of Behavior.
8. Discriminated Operants: Stimulus Control.
9. Conditional Discrimination and Higher-Order Classes.
10. Reinforcement Schedules.
11. Schedule Combinations: Behavior Synthesis.
12. Respondent Behavior: Conditioning.
13. Social Learning.
IV. LEARNING WITH WORDS.
14. Verbal Behavior: Language Function.
15. Verbal Behavior and Nonverbal Behavior.
16. Psycholinguistics: Language Structure.
17. Verbal Learning and Transfer.
18. The Functions of Remembering.
19. The Structure of Remembering.
20. Cognition and Problem Solving.
V. CONCLUSION.
21. Structure and Function in Learning.
Glossary.
Acknowledgments.
References.
Index.
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