Blank Page......Page 3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 11
Chapter 1: A Historical View: The First Age of Psychology; Structuralism, Functionalism and Psychoanalysis......Page 12
B.F. Skinner, and the Rise of Radical Behaviourism......Page 16
Operant Conditioning......Page 17
of Psychology; Cognitive Psychology......Page 20
on an Unresolved Issue......Page 22
Modern Cognitive-Behavioural Models......Page 24
The History of Clinical Diagnosis......Page 25
The History of Clinical Treatment......Page 26
A First Attempt at Integrating Behavioural and Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), the Second Wave of Behaviourism......Page 27
The Rise of the Third Wave in Behaviourism; Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)......Page 29
RFT, a Behavioural Theory to Debunk Chomsky?......Page 34
Chapter 4: Categorization and Concept Learning: A Modern Cognitive Psychology Approach......Page 37
Chapter 5: The Simplicity Model in Unsupervised Categorization......Page 42
Supervised vs. Unsupervised Categorization......Page 44
The Simplicity Principle......Page 47
Measuring Simplicity......Page 51
Information Theory and Brevity......Page 52
Coding Theory and Brevity......Page 56
The Simplicity Model of Unsupervised Categorization (Category Coherence)......Page 57
Basic Level Categories and Unsupervised Categorization......Page 58
From Perception to Unsupervised Categorization......Page 60
The Form of the Data......Page 61
Clustering by Simplicity Step 1: Coding Group......Page 63
Clustering by Similarity Step 2: Specifying the Data in Terms of Groups......Page 65
Other Unsupervised Models vs. the Simplicity Model......Page 67
CODE......Page 68
The Rational Model......Page 69
Statistical Clustering......Page 70
SUSTAIN......Page 72
The Unsupervised GCM......Page 73
DIVA......Page 74
Exemplar Models......Page 77
of Categorization......Page 78
The Generalized Context Model of Supervised Categorization......Page 79
RULEX (Nosofsky, Palmeri & McKinley, 1994)......Page 84
ATRIUM (Erickson & Kruschke, 1998)......Page 85
Exemplar Theory; The GCM and How This Relates to Absolute Judgment......Page 87
Absolute Identification Tasks......Page 89
Limitations in Information Transmission......Page 90
Sequential Effects......Page 92
Modified Thurstonian Models......Page 93
Laming?s (1984, 1997) Relative Judgment Model......Page 94
Absolute Judgment, Exemplar Models......Page 95
Relative vs. Absolute Judgment......Page 96
Relative Judgment in Analogical Mapping......Page 97
Analogical Mapping Modeling: DORA......Page 99
Conclusion......Page 100
Chapter 8: Categories as a Stimuli Class: Overcoming an Ontological Dichotomy......Page 101
Perceptual Concepts or Perceptual Classes of Stimuli......Page 103
Associative Concepts (Stimuli Function) or Stimulus Equivalence......Page 105
Relational Concepts......Page 106
Mental Representations or Verbal Behavior?......Page 107
References......Page 108
Index......Page 126