| Contemporary Animal Learning Theory (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences) | Paperbackby Anthony Dickinson (Author)
| List Price: | $21.95 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | | Page Count: | 188 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 27, 1981 | | Sales Rank: | 1,633,172st |
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A general but comprehensive study of the way in which animals learn and in particular, learn about the relationship between events in their environment. The study of animal learning and conditioning can be approached from two very different perspectives. The psychologist can focus directly on behaviour, relying on the conditioning experiment in his attempt to formulate behavioural laws and principles which will transcend the confines of the laboratory. The learning theorist however, is concerned not with behavioural change per se but rather with the way in which animals acquire knowledge through experience: the types of relationship to which they are sensitive, their representation of their knowledge about these and the mechanisms that control these representations. Dr Dickinson provides an integrated survey of the experimental and theoretical work which reflects these interests and approaches. The book is intended for a wide range of readers in psychology, biology and physiology and particularly for those who have yet seen the implications of the effective demise of behaviourism. |
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