Description: The Biology of Learning Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Report of the Dahlem Workshop on the Biology of Learning Berlin, 1983, October 23?28 Author(s): P.C. Holland, P. Marler, D.E. Kroodsma, H.S. Terrace, J.C. Marshall, R. Menzel, J. Morton Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K ISBN-13: 9783642700965, 978-3642700965 Synopsis P. Marler* and H. S. Terrace** *The Rockefeller University Field Research Center Millbrook, NY 12545 **Dept. of Psychology, Columbia University New York, NY 10027, USA For the first half of this century, theories of animal conditioning were regarded as the most promising approach to the study of learning - both animal and human. For a variety of reasons, disillusionment with this point of view has become widespread during recent years. One prominent source of disenchantment with conditioning theory is a large body of ethological observations of both learned and unlearned natural behavior. These challenge the generality of principles of animal learning as derived from the intensive study of a few species in specialized laboratory situations. From another direction, the complexities of human language acquisition, surely the most impressive of learned achievements, have prompted developmental psychologists to doubt the relevance of principles of animal learning. Even within the realm of traditional studies of animal learning, it has become apparent that no single set of currently available principles can cope with the myriad of new empirical findings. These are emerging at an accelerating rate from studies of such phenomena as selective attention and learning, conditioned food aversion, complex problem? solving behavior, and the nature of reinforcement. Not very surprisingly, as a reaction against the long-held but essentially unrealized promise of general theories of learning, many psychologists have asked an obvious question: does learning theory have a future? 2 r. Marler and B. S.
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Book Title: The Biology of Learning
Number of Pages: 739 Pages
Publication Name: The Biology of Learning: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on the Biology of Learning Berlin, 1983, October 23-28
Language: English
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin AND Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. KG
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Biology
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 1074 g
Author: P. Marler, H.S. Terrace
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Life Sciences Research Report
Format: Paperback
