Contemporary Learning Theories: Pavlovian Conditioning and the Status of Traditional Learning Theory

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Contemporary Learning Theories: Instrumental Conditioning Theory And the Impact of Biological Constraints on Learning xi
• Preface xiii
• Contributors xiv
• I Theories of Pavlovian Conditioning 1
• 1: Traditional Learning Theory and the Transition to Contemporary Learning Theory 3
• 2: Learning and Performance in Pavlovian Conditioning: Are Failures of Contiguity Failures of Learning Or Performance? 19
• 3: Contingency and Relative Associative Strength 61
• 4: Attention, Retrospective Processing and Cognitive Representations 85
• 5: Perceptual and Associative Learning 117
• 6: Evolution of a Structured Connectionist Model of Pavlovian Conditioning (AESOP) 149
• 7: Sign-Tracking: The Search for Reward 191
• II Current Status of Traditional Learning Theory 225
• 8: The Case for a Return to a Two-Factor Theory of Avoidance: The Failure of Non-Fear Interpretations 227
• 9: Expectancy Theory in Animal Conditioning 279
• Author Index 309
• Subject Index 319