Introduces the work of major figures who have strongly influenced theories in educational and clinical psychology and relates ideas about the scope and limits of behaviour modification to recent changes in the views of learning theorists.
Learning and Reinforcement (Essential Psychology)
โ Scribed by Stephen Walker
- Publisher
- Methuen young books
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 110
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
1. Introduction......Page 4
2. Habituation: the difference between familiar and unfamiliar stimuli......Page 13
3. Classical conditioning: involuntary associations......Page 22
reward andpositive reinforcement......Page 32
4. Operant conditioning: reward and positive reinforcement......Page 31
5. Operant conditioning: negative reinforcement and punishment......Page 46
6. Intermittent reinforcement and extinction: scarcity and absence of reinforcers......Page 58
7. Primary and secondary reinforcers: where do they come from?......Page 65
8. Discrimination learning: reinforcement for paying attention......Page 75
9. Concept learning: reinforcement for abstract behaviour......Page 86
Further reading......Page 98
References and Name Index......Page 99
Subject Index......Page 107
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