Description
Book SynopsisThoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of a classic text, for courses on the psychology of learning, is more sophisticated, current, and complete than ever, while still retaining the book’s signature emphasis on the “essentials” of conditioning and learning. Through four previous editions, students and instructors have relied on this book’s clear, concise, and highly accessible overview of the processes and mechanisms responsible for conditioning and learning. Domjan and Delamater summarize major theories of how humans and nonhuman animals learn, along with the classic experiments that support these theories and how they have been applied to address real-world problems.
New in the fifth edition:
- Increased discussion of clinical and translational relevance of research with laboratory animals
- Additional coverage of current associative, ethological, behavioral, and information processing approaches to
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Basic Concepts and Definitions
Chapter 2. The Substrate for Learning: Unconditioned Behavior
Chapter 3. Habituation and Sensitization
Chapter 4. Pavlovian Conditioning: Basic Concepts
Chapter 5. Stimulus Relations in Pavlovian Conditioning
Chapter 6. Pavlovian Conditioning Mechanisms and Theories
Chapter 7. Instrumental or Operant Conditioning
Chapter 8. Schedules of Reinforcement
Chapter 9. Theories of Reinforcement
Chapter 10. Extinction of Conditioned Behavior
Chapter 11. Punishment
Chapter 12. Avoidance Learning
Chapter 13. Stimulus Control of Behavior
Chapter 14. Memory Mechanisms
Glossary
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