Inferred functions of performance and learning / Siegfried Engelmann, Donald Steely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engelmann, Siegfried.

Contributor:

Steely, Donald G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

ix, 523 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Summary:

This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an analysis of what must be "wired into" the organism or machine. Once the basics of unlearned responding have been established, the authors then systematically show how learning mechanisms can be layered onto that foundation in ways that account for the performance of new, learned operations that eventually culminate in the acquisition of higher-order operations that involve concepts and language. This work is of interest to various practitioners engaged in analyzing and creating behavior: the ethnologist, the instructional designer, the learning psychologist, the physiologist-neurobiologist, and particularly the designer of intelligent machines.

Contents:

Part I Performance of Nonlearning Systems

1 A Framework for the Fundamentals of Performance 3

2 Basics of Hardwired Systems 24

3 Agent Functions 44

4 Interaction of Agent and Infrasystem 71

Part II Basic Learning

5 Perspectives on Basic Learning 95

6 Basic Antecedent Learning 118

7 Basic Response-Strategy Learning 148

8 Learning Patterns and Generalizations 174

9 Transformation of Data 202

Part III Extended Learning

10 Individuals and Features 233

11 Secondary and Unfamiliar Learning 261

12 Experimental Designs 293

13 Volition and Thought 318

Part IV Human Learning and Instruction

14 Human Learning 347

15 Language 372

16 Human Cognitive Development 402

17 The Logic of Instruction 433

18 Issues 466.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-507) and indexes.

ISBN:

0805845402

OCLC:

50554527