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Contemporary Animal Learning Theory
This 1980 book provides a general but comprehensive study of the way in which animals learn and in particular, learn about the relationship between events in their environment. The …
Computer Models of Mind
This book shows how computer models are used to study many psychological phenomena - including vision, language, reasoning, and learning.
Theoretical Approaches to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder is currently the subject of considerable research, since recent epidemiological studies have suggested that the condition is more prevalent than was …
Frustration Theory
We live in a world in which inconsistency is the rule rather than the exception and this is particularly true for rewards and frustrations. In some cases, rewards and frustrative …
Latent Inhibition and Conditioned Attention Theory
Latent inhibition is an exquisitely simple, robust and pervasive behavioural phenomenon - the reduced ability of an organism to learn new associations to previously inconsequential …
Biology and Emotion
There have been rapid and important advances in all behavioural sciences in recent years. These advances have in one sense been very diverse and specialised - sufficiently so for a …
Incentive Relativity
Disappointment and recovery occur frequently in life; as does irritation regarding ones financial or economic state compared to others. Incentive relativity is the study of this …
Motivational Systems
This well-written and lively account of the principles of how motivational systems operate includes discussions of both theories and empirical results from individual systems. It …
Psychobiology of Personality
Personality can be defined along a small number of well established dimensions, at least half of which are determined by hereditary factors. Heredity acts on behaviour through its …
The Psychology of Associative Learning
It is hard to think of any significant aspect of our lives that is not influenced by what we have learned in the past. Of fundamental importance is our ability to learn the ways in …