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Purposive behavior in animals and men.
- Title
- Purposive behavior in animals and men.
- Author
- Tolman, Edward Chace, 1886-1959.
- Publication
- New York, Century [©1932]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 463 pages illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Century psychology series
- Uniform Title
- Century psychology series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- "References" at end of each chapter.
- Contents
- Behavior, a molar phenomenon -- Demands and means-end-readiness -- Demands for goal-objects -- Expectations of goal-objects and means-objects -- Discrimination and manipulanda -- Expectations of means-end-relations -- Means-end-distances -- Spatial direction and spatial hierarchies -- Mnemonization, perception, inference, sign-gestalt-expectations -- Learning and delayed reaction -- Inference: the means-end-field -- Means-end-capacities -- Conscious awareness and ideation -- Inventive ideation -- Speech and introspection -- Sensation and images -- Feeling and emotion -- Appetites and aversions -- Second -- order drives: personality-mechanisms -- Instinct, chain appetites and aversions, skills -- The nature and laws of learning-the conditions reflex doctrine -- The nature of learning: the trial and error doctrine -- The nature of learning: the doctrine of purposive behaviorism -- The final variables of purposive behaviorism -- Summary and conclusion.
- LCCN
- 32002139
- OCLC
- ocm01279570
- 1279570
- SCSB-294597
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library