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Psychology of Learning and Behavior

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ISBN-10: 0393975916

ISBN-13: 9780393975918

Edition: 5th 2002

Authors: Barry Schwartz, Edward A. Wasserman, Steven J. Robbins

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Now in its Fifth Edition, Psychology of Learning and Behavior is one of the most highly regarded texts in its field. Barry Schwartz, Steven Robbins, and new coauthor Edward Wasserman offer students an engaging introduction to the basic principles of Pavlovian conditioning, operant conditioning, and comparative cognition. The text's critical approach exposes students to the unresolved problems and controversies surrounding behavior theory and encourages them to interpret the material and make connections between theories and real-life situations. With several hundred new references, a new emphasis on comparative cognition, and expanded treatment of neuroscience and the neural basis of…    
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Book details

List price: $86.60
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/19/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 0.83" wide x 0.95" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Barry Schwartz is Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action in the psychology department at Swarthmore College. Schwartz has published widely in scholarly journals in the field of learning and motivation. In addition, he is the author of Behaviorism, Science, and Human Nature (with Hugh Lacey), The Battle for Human Nature, and The Costs of Living.

Edward A. Wasserman is Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University Iowa. Wasserman's research centers on learning, memory, and cognition in both humans and animals. He recently served as a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences, Marseille, France.

Steven J. Robbins is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Arcadia University. Robbins has taught everything from psychology of learning, methods, and statistics to general psychology and physiological psychology. He has published numerous journal articles and chapters on animal learning and on behavioral mechanisms involved in human drug addiction.

Preface
Event Learning: Habituation and Pavlovian Conditioning
Human Nature, Science, and Behavior Theory
Single Event Learning: Habituation
Pavlovian Conditioning: Basic Phenomena
Pavlovian Conditioning: Causal Factors
Pavlovian Conditioning: Explanations
Pavlovian Conditioning: Storage and Response Output
Behavior-Event Learning: Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning: Basic Phenomena
Operant Conditioning: Causal Factors and Explanations
Aversive Control of Behavior: Punishment and Avoidance
The Maintenance of Behavior: Intermittent Reinforcement, Choice, and Economics
Complex Learning Processes
Stimulus Control of Operant Behavior
Interactions between Pavlovian and Operant Conditioning
Behavior and Conceptualization
Memory and Cognition
Human Learning and Cognition: Learning about Causes
References
Credits
Name Index
Subject Index