Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of contemporary learning theories / edited by Robert R. Mowrer, Stephen B. Klein.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Mowrer, Robert R., 1956-
• Klein, Stephen B.

Description

x, 622 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Cognition
• Learning, Psychology of
• Learning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The Transitive Nature of Contemporary Learning Theory / Robert R. Mowrer and Stephen B. Klein -- 2. A Componential Theory of Pavlovian Conditioning / Allan R. Wagner and Susan E. Brandon -- 3. The Extended Comparator Hypothesis: Learning by Contiguity, Responding by Relative Strength / James C. Denniston, Harnan I. Savastano and Ralph R. Miller -- 4. Experimental Extinction / Robert A. Rescorla -- 5. Motivational Modes in Behavior Systems / William Timberlake -- 6. Theories of Conditioning and Timing / Russell M. Church and Kimberly Kirkpatrick -- 7. Contingency Learning and Causal Reasoning / A. G. Baker, Robin A. Murphy and Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau / [et al.] -- 8. Incentive Processes in Instrumental Conditioning / Bernard W. Bolleine -- 9. Perceptual Learning: Association and Differentiation / Geoffrey Hall -- 10. Autoshaping and Drug-Taking / Arthur Tomie --
• 11. Neurobiology of Reinforcement: Interaction Between Dopamine and Cholecystokinin Systems / Norberto J. DeSousa and Franca J. Vaccarino -- 12. Effects of Uncontrollable Aversive Events: Some Unsolved Puzzles / Vincent M. LaLordo and Tracy L. Taylor -- 13. The Attenuating Effects of Drug Preexposure on Taste Aversion Conditioning: Generality, Experimental Parameters, Underlying Mechanisms, and Implications for Drug Use and Abuse / Anthony L. Riley and Gregory R. Simpson -- 14. The Neurotic Paradox: Attempts by Two-Factor Fear Theory and Alternative Avoidance Models to Resolve the Issues Associated With Sustained Avoidance Responding in Extinction / Donald J. Levis and Karen E. Brewer.

ISBN

080583334X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00035387

OCLC

• ocm43701774
• SCSB-4011428

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries