Social learning and imitation / by Neal E. Miller and John Dollard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Neal E. (Neal Elgar), 1909-2002, author.

Contributor:

Dollard, John, 1900-1980

Series:

International Library of Sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; I. Learning : Its Conditions and Principles; II. Four Fundamentals of Learning; A Simple Experiment; Factors Involved in Learning; Drive; Cue; Response; Reward; Summary; III. Significant Details of the Learning Process; Extinction; Spontaneous Recovery; Generalization; Discrimination; Gradient in the Effects of Reward; Anticipatory Response; IV. A Basis for Acquired Drives and Acquired Rewards; V. Higher Mental Processes; Innate Bases for Adjustment; Acquired Cue Value; Acquired Equivalence of Cues; Foresight

LanguageReasoning; VI. A Pattern Case of Imitation; A Case of Matched-Dependent Behaviour; Analysis of the Behaviour of the Imitator Child; Analysis of Leader's Behaviour; Complete Paradigm of Matched-Dependent Behaviour; VII. The Learning and the Generalization of Imitation : Experiments on Animals; Experiment 1: Learning to Imitate; Apparatus; Subjects; Procedure; Results; Experiment 2: Generalization to Leaders of Different Colour; Experiment 3: Generalization From One Drive to Another; Experiment 4: Generalization From One Environment to Another; Summary and Discussion

VIII. The Learning of Imitation : Experiments on ChildrenExperiment 5: Learning of Imitation By Children; Experiment 6: Generalization of Imitation; IX. Varying Cases of Matched-Dependent Behaviour; Case 1. Common Goal But Differing Responses; Case 2. Secondary Reward; Case 3: Testing; Case 4: Secondary Drives of Imitation and Rivalry; Imitative Versus Environmental Cues; X. Copying : The Rôle of Sameness and Difference; XI. The Prestige of Models : Experiments on Children; Experiment 7: Learning to Discriminate Between Leaders3

Experiment 8: The Generalization of Prestige or Lack of Prestige to New LeadersExperiment 9: The Leader's Prestige as a Model Generalizing From One Response to Another; The Verbal Responses of the Children; Summary; XII. The Social Conditions Producing Imitation; Age-Grade Superiors; Imitation of Superiors in Social Status; Imitation of the Intelligent; Imitation of Technicians; Non-Imitation; XIII. Imitation and Independent Learning : Experiment on Children; Experiment 10: The RÔle of Direction of Attention in Determining Whether Imitation Facilitates or Hinders Independent Learning

Incomplete ImitationXIV. Crowd Behaviour; XV. Analysis of a Lynching; Analysis of the Lynching; The Drive: Fear; The Secondary Response: Aggression; Permissiveness; Strength of Response of the Nuclear Mob; Strength of Response of the Larger Crowd; The Case for the Crowd Variable; XVI. Copying in the Diffusion of Culture; Psychological Conditions Bearing on Diffusion; Social Conditions Affecting Copying; Inexactness of Copying; Appendix 1. Revision of Holt's Theory of Imitation; Appendix 2.; A. Theories Bearing on the Nature of Imitative Behaviour; B. Experimental Work on Imitative Behaviour

References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-315-00824-6

1-136-27741-2

9781315008240

OCLC:

900479356