Behavior Theory and Learning, Selected Papers

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Preface iii
• Table of Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Part I - Methodological Basis of Psychology 1
• 2 - The Nature of Theory Construction in Contempory Psychology 17
• 3 - The Postulates and Methods of "Behaviorism" 39
• 4 - Mathematical Formulations of Learning Phenomena 57
• 5 - The Empirical Basis and Theoretical Structure of Psychology 71
• Part II - Behavior Theory 89
• 7 - The Relation of Response Latency and Speed to the Intervening Variables and N in S-R Theory 113
• 8 - A Theory of Emotionally Based Drive (d) and Its Relation to Performance in Simple Learning Situations 125
• 9 - Learning and Performance in Eyelid Conditioning as a Function of Intensity of the Ucs 148
• 10 - Ucs Intensity and the Associative (habit) Strength of the Eyelid Cr, 161
• 11 - Performance in Eyelid Conditioning Related to Changes in Muscular Tension and Physiological Measures of Emotionality 175
• 12 - The Relation of Anxiety (drive) Level to Performance in Competitional and Non- Competitional Paired-Associates Learning , 185
• 13 - A Study of Simple Learning under Irrelevant Motivational-Reward Conditions] 202
• 14 - The Order of Eliminating Blinds in Maze Learning by the Rat 225
• 15 - Cognitive versus Stimulus-Response Theories of Leaming 245
• Part III - Discrimination Learning 267
• 17 - The Differential Response in Animals to Stimuli Varying within a Single Dimension 292
• 18 - Continuous versus Non-Continuous Interpretations of Discrimination Learning 308
• 19 - Gradual versus Sudden Solution of Discrimination Problems by Chimpanzees 326
• 20 - The Basis of Solution by Chimpanzees of the Intermediate Size Problem 339
• 21 - The Nature of the Response in Discrimination Learning 359
• 22 - Conceptual Models of Spatial and Non-Spatial Selective Learning 366
• Index 393

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