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Book Magnitude of Reinforcement in Discrimination Learning

Download or read book Magnitude of Reinforcement in Discrimination Learning written by Barry Fredric Singer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spatial Discrimination Learning as a Function of Varying Magnitudes of Differential Sucrose Reinforcement

Download or read book Spatial Discrimination Learning as a Function of Varying Magnitudes of Differential Sucrose Reinforcement written by Roger Wade Black and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effect of Delay and of Intervening Events on Reinforcement Value

Download or read book The Effect of Delay and of Intervening Events on Reinforcement Value written by Michael L. Commons and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. This is Volume V of six in a series on Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Quantitative analysis now generally refers to the fact that theoretical issues are represented by quantitative models. An analysis is not a matter of fitting arbitrary functions to data points. The volumes in the present series have been written for behavioral scientists. Those concerned with issues in the study of how behavior is acquired and then allocated in various environments-biologists, psychologists, economists, anthropologists, and other researchers, as well as graduate students and advanced undergraduates in those areas-should find volumes in this series to be state-of the-art readers and reference works. Each volume of the series examines a particular topic that has been discussed at the annual Symposium on Quantitative Analyses of Behavior held at Harvard University. This volume, V, addresses the topic of how reinforcement value is affected by delay and intervening events. Self-control studies are also presented and discussed.

Book Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology

Download or read book Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology written by Leslie Real and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length exploration of behavioral mechanisms in evolutionary ecology, this ambitious volume illuminates long-standing questions about cause-and-effect relations between an animal's behavior and its environment. By focusing on biological mechanisms—the sum of an animal's cognitive, neural, developmental, and hormonal processes—leading researchers demonstrate how the integrated study of animal physiology, cognitive processes, and social interaction can yield an enriched understanding of behavior. With studies of species ranging from insects to primates, the contributors examine how various animals identify and use environmental resources and deal with ecological constraints, as well as the roles of learning, communication, and cognitive aspects of social interaction in behavioral evolution. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how the study of internal mechanistic foundations of behavior in relation to their ecological and evolutionary contexts and outcomes provides valuable insight into such behaviors as predation, mating, and dispersal. Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology shows how a mechanistic approach unites various levels of biological organization to provide a broader understanding of the biological bases of behavioral evolution.

Book The Perception of Stimulus Relations

Download or read book The Perception of Stimulus Relations written by Hayne W. Reese and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perception of Stimulus Relations: Discrimination Learning and Transposition focuses on the processes, methodologies, and approaches involved in discrimination learning and transposition. The book first offers information on stimulus equivalence, transposition of paradigms, and the transposition and relation perception problems. The manuscript then examines measurement, training, subject, and test variables. Topics include stimulus and procedural variables, effect of direction of transposition test, phylogenetic comparisons, concept knowledge, and speed of original learning. The publication elaborates on form transposition, including transposition of visual forms and the meaning of form and form transposition. The text then takes a look at relational and absolute theories, summary of findings and evaluation of theories, and outline of a theory of transposition. Discussions focus on assumptions and basic deductions, effect of absolute stimulus components, effect of noticing change in stimuli from training to test, and stimulus similarity. The book is a valuable source of data for readers interested in discrimination learning and transposition.

Book Publications Resulting from National Institute of Mental Health Research Grants 1947 1961

Download or read book Publications Resulting from National Institute of Mental Health Research Grants 1947 1961 written by United States. Public Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications Resulting from National Institute of Mental Health Research Grants  1947 1961

Download or read book Publications Resulting from National Institute of Mental Health Research Grants 1947 1961 written by National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecological Learning Theory

Download or read book Ecological Learning Theory written by Graham Davey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, this title presents a view of adaptive behaviour which integrates both evolutionary and psychological perspectives on learning. The study of learning, and in particular conditioning, had evolved in isolation from the rest of the biological sciences, and until the late 1980s had largely ignored the fact that learning processes are adaptive functions subject to the pressures of evolutionary selection. This text is designed to give a thorough insight into contemporary views of learning mechanisms, at the same time incorporating an evolutionary perspective on the function and performance of learning. Graham Davey gives a detailed introduction to evolutionary approaches to behaviour and basic learning phenomena such as Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning. He also provides a comparative introduction to both learning and performance aspects of conditioning. He covers ecological approaches to adaptive behaviour (e.g. foraging theory), specialized learning processes such as concept formation, spatial learning, and language learning. Innovative in its integration of ecological and evolutionary approaches with more traditional associative views of learning, the book introduces the reader to learning in a very wide variety of species other than the traditional laboratory rat and pigeon. It will be valuable to anyone with a general interest in animal behaviour, and also to those with a specific interest in learning, adaptive behaviour, and evolutionary approaches to behaviour.

Book Processes of Animal Memory  PLE  Memory

Download or read book Processes of Animal Memory PLE Memory written by Douglas L. Medin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, this volume contains new and original contributions of the time addressed to a related set of ideas concerning processes of memory in animals. The theme is that animals remember and that theories of animal learning must take this into account as well as the coding processes that have been assumed to be specific to human beings. The focus of the book is on processes, and some progress is reported in differentiating types of memory. The emphasis in applying animal work to studies of human memory is made not in terms of paradigms but in terms of processes implicated via performance in a variety of tasks. Also, many of the chapters reflect the usefulness of applying a memory framework to a variety of "nonmemory" paradigms. This work will be essential reading for all those interested in animal as well as human memory, and provided the most up to date and broadest examination of animal memory processes at the time, from both a theoretical and conceptual framework.

Book The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Health Service Publication

Download or read book Public Health Service Publication written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychological Reports

Download or read book Psychological Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

Download or read book Nebraska Symposium on Motivation written by Nebraska Symposium on Motivation and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychology Library Editions  Comparative Psychology

Download or read book Psychology Library Editions Comparative Psychology written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 5254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology Library Editions: Comparative Psychology (16 Volume set) brings together a number of titles which explore animal behaviour and learning, some in isolation but mostly comparing it with human behaviour. Research in this area looks at many different issues, using various methods and examines species from insects to primates. The series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1928 and 1997, with the majority from the 1970s and 1980s, includes contributions from many highly respected authors.

Book The Processing of Memories  PLE  Memory

Download or read book The Processing of Memories PLE Memory written by Norman E. Spear and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this volume contains the evidence that is most crucial for our understanding the processes of forgetting and retention. Organized in terms of problem areas and issues that are particularly pertinent to understanding these processes, the book deals with both animal and human studies. The author begins by defining the topic and reviewing its historical development. A theoretical orientation follows, and then the author begins to address the major factors that determine what is, and what is not, remembered. Although we cannot yet specify the principles from which we can predict when an episode, once learned, will be remembered well or forgotten entirely, the author demonstrates that such principles are not that far away. He considers the issues that must be resolved before such principles are established, and in the course of doing so covers the major research on why we remember events and why they are forgotten.

Book Nebraska Symposium on Motivation

Download or read book Nebraska Symposium on Motivation written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: