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Learning, 4/E
A. Charles Catania, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

ISBN-10: 0132352508
ISBN-13: 9780132352505

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1998
Format: Cloth; 462 pp
Published: 07/10/1997
Status: Out of Print

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Designed for a one-semester course in the Psychology of Learning at the sophomore through senior level.

Emphasizing research findings and basic concepts rather than theories, this book surveys the major areas in the psychology of learning from a consistent behavioral (e.g., B.F. Skinner) point of view. Learning 4E 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).

Explores the relevance of nonhuman studies in learning to human learning and memory.

More self-contained units allow the instructor the freedom to change the order of material, emphasis, etc.

Contains a glossary of terminology in the psychology of learning and useful tables that summarize critical terminology.

Offers a more systematic and thorough coverage of the ways in which new behavior emerges or is produced.

This edition is written to be more readable and more accessible.

New chapters cover behavioral taxonomy, an updated treatment of higher-order processes, sources of novel behavior, and naming as a higher-order class of verbal behavior.

Many new examples of the application of basic principles of learning to important issues and problems of human behavior.

NEW—Offers a more systematic and thorough coverage of the ways in which new behavior emerges or is produced.
NEW—This edition is written to be more readable and more accessible.
NEW—New chapters cover behavioral taxonomy, an updated treatment of higher-order processes, sources of novel behavior, and naming as a higher-order class of verbal behavior.
NEW—Many new examples of the application of basic principles of learning to important issues and problems of human behavior.

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Learning and Behavior.

2. A Behavior Taxonomy.

II. BEHAVIOR WITHOUT LEARNING.

3. Evolution and Behavior.

4. Elicited and Emitted Behavior.

III. LEARNING WITHOUT WORDS.

5. Consequences of Responding: Reinforcement.

6. Consequences of Responding: Aversive Control.

7. Operants: The Selection of Behavior.

8. Discriminated Operants: Stimulus Control.

9. Conditional Discrimination and Higher-Order Classes.

10. Reinforcement Schedules.

11. Schedule Combinations: Behavior Synthesis.

12. Respondent Behavior: Conditioning.

13. Social Learning.

IV. LEARNING WITH WORDS.

14. Verbal Behavior: Language Function.

15. Verbal Behavior and Nonverbal Behavior.

16. Psycholinguistics: Language Structure.

17. Verbal Learning and Transfer.

18. The Functions of Remembering.

19. The Structure of Remembering.

20. Cognition and Problem Solving.

V. CONCLUSION.

21. Structure and Function in Learning.

Glossary.

Acknowledgments.

References.

Index.

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