Fundamentals Of Learning And Motivation

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wm. C. Brown Co Publishers
Publisher Place: Dubuque
Publisher Year: 1973
Edition: Reprint

Description: 226 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout and covered in a protective plastic.

Publishers Description: Introduction to learning. The stimulus. The emotional value of stimuli. The response. The anticipatory response. Facts of conditioning. A scientific theory of classical conditioning. Positive reinforcement and Negative reinforcement. Response persistence: extinction, counterconditioning, and punishment. Generalization, discrimination and differentiation. An overview of learning. Introduction to motivation biological needs and psychological drives. Primary motivation: the pain drive, the hunger and thirst drives, the sex drive. Secondary motivation. Incentive motivation.Gordon Bower reports "Frank Logan was probably the last of the great systematists of Hull-Spence learning theory. He believed ever so passionately that learning was the foundation on which the edifice of psychology rested and that a version of Hullian behavioral theory provided the best characterization of that foundation. He had originally been brought to Yale's Institute for Human Relations as a postdoctoral research associate, joining with others in pursuit of the Institute's larger vision: extending behavior theory to explain phenomena from other social sciences such as anthropology, linguistics, and economics. That vision was to motivate the rest of his career, despite the fact that his experimental studies concentrated exclusively on learning and motivation in rats."

ISBN: 0697061361