Research Catalog

Title

Learning and complex behavior / John W. Donahoe, David C. Palmer ; edited by Vivian Packard Dorsel.

Author

Donahoe, John W., 1932-

Publication

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Palmer, David C., 1947-
• Dorsel, Vivian Packard.

Description

x, 405 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Written from the perspective of selectionist theory, this text presents a theoretically integrated approach to the study of animal learning and human cognition that co-ordinates behavioural research and research in neuroscience. It covers traditional topics such as acquisition and extinction of behaviour, stimulus control and schedules of reinforcement, and also deals with topics of student interest such as perception, memory, problem solving and verbal behaviour. All of these topics are discussed in terms of principles established by experimental analysis at the behavioural and neural levels, and scientific interpretation based on those principles.

Subject

• Learning, Psychology of
• Behaviorism (Psychology)
• Cognitive psychology
• Cognition
• Learning
• Cognition
• Learning
• Behaviorism
• cognition
• Cognitive psychology
• Learning, Psychology of
• Kognitive Psychologie
• Lernpsychologie
• Lernverhalten
• Einführung
• Gedrag
• Leren
• Cognitieve processen
• Apprentissage, Psychologie de l'
• Psychologie cognitive

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-393) and indexes.

Contents

I. The Origins of Learned Behavior. Approaches to understanding complex behavior -- Organized complexity in historical science -- Organized complexity in a science of behavior. II. Selection of Behavior. Variation -- Selection. III. Environmental Guidance of Behavior. Characteristics of selected environment-behavior relations -- Stimulus generalization -- Stimulus discrimination -- Environmental guidance of human behavior. IV. Selection in the Experienced Learner. Retention -- Acquired reinforcement -- Complex effects of reinforcement history -- Complex contingencies of reinforcement . V. Classes of Environment-Behavior Relations. Analysis and interpretation -- Discrimitive stimulus classes -- Functional classes -- Response classes. VI. Attending. Sensing and attending -- Stimulus discrimination and attending -- Centextual discriminations and attending -- Concurrent guidance and attending. VII. Perceiving Environment-Environment Relations. Perceiving invariants -- Perceiving regularities -- Effects of environment-environment relations. VIII. Memory: Reminding. Memory as environmentally guided behavior -- Reminding and remembering -- Reminding. IX. Functioning of the Experienced Learner. Environmental guidance in the experienced learner -- Activation patterns -- Behavioral effects of activation patterns -- Imagining -- Awareness. X. Problem Solving. "Problem" defined -- Marshaling supplementary stimuli -- The experimental analysis of problem solving. XI. Verbal Behavior. Physiological and anatomical contributions to verbal behavior -- Parallel processes in verbal behavior -- Novelty in verbal behavior -- Verbal behavior conforms to rules -- The role of explicit reinforcement in language acquisition. XII. Remembering. The role of interpretation in the analysis of remembering -- Memory as problem solving -- Mnemonic behavior: Acquisition procedures -- The acquisition of mnemonic behavior -- Anterograde amnesia and mnemonic behavior -- The interpretation of exceptional mnemonic performances.

ISBN

• 0205139965
• 9780205139965

LCCN

93022625

OCLC

• ocm28148349
• 28148349
• SCSB-2018171

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library