Learning/Behavior Analysis
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Developmental Variations in Learning
Applications to Social, Executive Function, Language, and Reading Skills
Developmental changes in cognitive abilities in childhood have long been of interest to researchers across many fields, including behavioral sciences, communications, education, and medicine. With the publication of research findings showing individual differences in the development of children's...
Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning
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...
Published December 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
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Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Learning
A Festschrift in Honor of Richard F. Thompson
This volume contains a collection of papers written by former students, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues of Richard Thompson and represent written versions of papers presented at the Festschrift symposium. The Festschrift provided an excellent opportunity for the participants to recount their...
Published February 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
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New Directions in Human Associative Learning
The editor and authors of this book present a synthesis of work on human associative learning, tracing some of its historical roots but concentrating mainly on recent developments. It is divided into three sections: an introduction to the recent data and controversies in the study of human...
Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press
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The Role of Communication in Learning To Model
In this book, a number of experts from various disciplines take a look at three different strands in learning to model. They examine the activity of modeling from disparate theoretical standpoints, taking into account the individual situation of the individuals involved. The chapters seek to bridge...
Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior
Series: Distinguished Lecture Series
The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong...
Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press





