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Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Motivation, and Emotion : Learning, Motivation, and Emotion

Now available in paperback. This revised and updated edition of the definitive resource for experimental psychology offers comprehensive coverage of the latest findings in the field, as well as the most recent contributions in methodology and the explosion of research in neuroscience. Volume Three: Learning, Motivation, and Emotion, focuses on the role of learning in the operation of motivational systems in human cognitive development
eBook, English, 2004
3rd ed
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, Hoboken, 2004
1 online resource (912 pages)
9780471207979, 0471207977
1048627813
STEVENS' HANDBOOK OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY THIRD EDITION Volume 3: Learning, Motivation, and Emotion
Contributors
Contents
PREFACE
1 ASSOCIATIVE STRUCTURES IN PAVLOVIAN AND INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING
2 LEARNING: LAWS AND MODELS OF BASIC CONDITIONING
3 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
4 NEURAL ANALYSIS OF LEARNING IN SIMPLE SYSTEMS
5 LEARNING MUTANTS
6 LEARNING INSTINCTS
7 PERCEPTUAL LEARNING
8 SPATIAL LEARNING
9 TEMPORAL LEARNING
10 ROLE OF LEARNING IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
11 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
12 THE ROLE OF LEARNING IN THE OPERATION OF MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS
13 EMOTIONAL PLASTICITY
14 ANATOMY OF MOTIVATION
15 HUNGER AND ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS
16 THIRST AND WATER-SALT APPETITE
17 REPRODUCTIVE MOTIVATION
18 SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
19 ADDICTION
Author Index
Subject Index