Behavior theory and learning : selected papers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spence, Kenneth W. (Kenneth Wartenbee), 1907-1967, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Learning, Psychology of.

Psychology--education.

Medical Subjects:

Psychology--education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1960.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"The following collection of papers, while mostly theoretical in nature, includes a number of experimental articles that have served as vehicles for elaborating the behavior theory approach of the writer. Consisting of twenty previously published articles and two new papers, the volume offers a kind of behavior or activity sample of a psychologist who has not only been concerned with attempting to bring the kind of order into psychological phenomena that theories provide, but has also had an abiding interest in the nature and role of theory per se in this scientific endeavor. This latter interest is reflected especially in the papers that have been grouped into Part I of the book. Primarily concerned with philosophical and methodological problems of psychology, i.e., its philosophy of science, these articles discuss both empirical questions relating to the requirements that scientific concepts must fulfill in order to be both testable and significant and the nature and role of theoretical structures in providing for scientific explanation in psychology. Part II contains a heterogeneous collection of papers concerned both with the basic theoretical structure of learning phenomena developed by the author from simple conditioning studies and with extrapolations of this theory to more complex types of behavior such as are involved in simple T-maze, complex serial mazes, and paired associates learning in humans. In Part III of the volume, three early theoretical articles on discrimination learning, the phenomenon of transposition, and the continuity-noncontinuity issue are followed by representative empirical studies concerned with testing of the theoretical schema." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

Notes:

Includes bibliography.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2005 dcunns.

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