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Overview
Emphasizing research findings and basic concepts rather than theories, this book surveys the major areas in the psychology of learning from a consistent behaviorist (i.e., B.F. Skinner) point of view. Explores the continuities between human learning and the learning of other animals. The book organizes the phenomena of learning in a systematic way, moving from Behavior Without Learning (evolution) to Learning Without Words (basics in nonhuman behavior and learning) to Learning With Words (human learning and memory).Editorials
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Surveys the major areas in the psychology of learning, treating some topics often regarded as the province of contemporary cognitive psychology along with those more traditionally regarded as behavioral. An effort has been made to include examples of human behavior in discussing the relevance of nonhuman studies of learning, and to refer to appropriate concepts from nonhuman behavior in discussing human learning and memory. New examples of human applications of basic processes show how behavior analysis may contribute to education in significant ways. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
July 10, 1997
Publisher
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1998.
Pages
462
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780132352505