Behavioral Psychology

Originally published in 1975, Volume 2 of this Handbook looks at areas traditionally associated with learning theory such as conditioning, discrimination and behavior theory. It deals with concepts and theories growing principally out of laboratory studies of conditioning and learning. The intention..

Attempts to formulate scientific theories based on both animal experiments and human experience have been applied to education and the treatment of psychological disturbance, with some success. First published in 1984, this incisive guide to the research and its outcomes provides the background to o..

Originally published in 1980, this volume explores some of the dramatic and exciting changes that had taken place in the field of conditioning in the 15 years prior to publication. The usefulness of a particular learning procedure, second-order conditioning, is explored in three aspects of the learn..