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 Theory and Behaviour Modification
โ Scribed by Stephen Walker
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 115
- Series
- New Essential Psychology
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
1. Introduction to Learning Theory......Page 4
2. Common factors in learning theories......Page 16
3. Pavlovian conditioning: reflexes, expectancies and involuntary emotional associations......Page 21
4. Goals, rewards and reinforcements......Page 29
5. Punishment, avoidance, conflict and anxiety......Page 39
5. Punishment, avoidance, conflict and anxiety......Page 45
6. Pavlov's applications of his conditioned reflex theory......Page 51
7. Watson's applications of behaviourism to advertising and to children......Page 55
8. Applications of stimulus-response theories from Thorndike to Wolpe......Page 62
9. H.J. Eysenck and behaviour therapy at the Maudsley hospital......Page 71
10. B.F. Skinner on language and life......Page 78
11. Plain behaviour modification: rewards and withdrawal of rewards......Page 86
12. Behaviour therapy and cognitive behaviour modification......Page 90
Suggestions for further reading......Page 99
References and name index......Page 100
Subject index......Page 110
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