Research Catalog

Title

The psychology of learning / James Deese.

Author

Deese, James, 1921-1999.

Publication

New York, McGraw-Hill, ©1952.

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Details

Description

ix, 398 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

McGraw-Hill series in psychology

Uniform Title

McGraw-Hill series in psychology.

Subject

• Learning, Psychology of
• Learning
• Educational psychology
• Learning
• Psychology, Educational
• Educational psychology
• Learning, Psychology of
• Lernpsychologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-386) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction -- Reinforcement and learning -- The nature of extinction -- Stimuli in learning and the process of discrimination -- Motivation and learning -- Negative reinforcement and punishment -- Serial learning and the chaining of responses -- Factors affecting rate of complex learning -- Retention -- Forgetting -- Transfer of training -- Efficiency in human learning -- Thinking and problem solving -- Learning and the nature of the learner -- Emotion and intellect -- Physiological problems in learning -- Current theoretical problems.

LCCN

52007436

OCLC

• ocm01212361
• 1212361
• SCSB-1038102

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library