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Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition

by: Levy; Jeffrey C.

Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition

by: Levy; Jeffrey C.

ISBN 13:
9780205205479
ISBN 10:
020520547X
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/04/2012
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

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Summary

How the human condition relates to classical and instrumental conditioning Adaptive Learning and the Human Conditionemphasizes the relationship between experimental research and classical and instrumental conditioning. The text addresses classical and instrumental conditioning while stressing the definition of learning as an adaptive process through which individuals acquire the ability to predict and control the environment. This approach creates a perspective within which it is possible to consider the fundamental nature of the learning process in understanding the human condition and in addressing significant individual and social concerns. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: Explain the significance of human condition through adaptive learning Present the basic principles of classical and instrumental conditioning Understand the significance of scientific research Note:MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit:www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text +MySearchLab: ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205950779 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205950775

Author Biography

Jeffrey C. Levy’s professional career at Seton Hall University may be divided into three stages, BC, DC, and AC (before, during, and after his 24-year term as chair of the Department of Psychology). Frequently recognized for teaching excellence, he received the Deans Advisory Council’s Outstanding Teacher Award for the College of Arts & Sciences, Sears-Roebuck Award for College Teaching and Campus Leadership, and was twice nominated by Seton Hall for National CASE Professor of the Year recognition. Trained as an experimental psychologist with interests in behavior modification, Levy regularly taught the undergraduate Learning course with and without a related animal laboratory and a graduate course in Behavior Modification. A sabbatical opportunity subsequent to his service as chair enabled him to dedicate a year to elaborating upon this teaching experience and drafting Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition.

In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents

2) Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1: A Science of Adaptive Learning

Chapter 1: Science, Psychology, and Adaptive Learning

Chapter 2: Adaptive Learning Research Methods

Part 2: Predictive Learning

Chapter 3: Predictive Learning: Basic Principles and Phenomena

Chapter 4: Predictive Learning: Basic Variables and Theoretical Issues

Chapter 5: Predictive Learning: Applications

Part 3: Control Learning

Chapter 6: Control Learning: Basic Principles and Phenomena

Chapter 7: Control Learning: Basic Variables and Theoretical Issues

Chapter 8: Control Learning: Applications

Chapter 9: Schedules of Reward and Maintenance of Learned Behavior

Part 4: The Human Condition

Chapter 10: Personality, Socialization, and Culture

Chapter 11: Becoming Human and Transforming the Human Condition

Chapter 12: Becoming Human through Indirect Social Learning

Chapter 13: Individual and Cultural Self-Actualization

Chapter 14: Self-Actualization through Self-Control

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1: A Science of Adaptive Learning

Chapter 1. Science, Psychology, and Adaptive Learning

The Human Condition Explanation and Empiricism

The Scientific Method

Early History of Psychology

Psychology Today

Scientific Explanation in Psychology

Where Does Psychology Look for Explanations?

Definitions of Learning

Direct and Indirect Learning

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 2. Adaptive Learning Research Methods

Internal and External Validity

Non-Experimental Research Methods

Experimental Research Methods

Adaptive Learning Research Methods and External Validity

Summary

Key Terms

Part 2. Predictive Learning

Chapter 3. Predictive Learning: Basic Principles and Phenomena

Pavlov’s classical conditioning paradigm

Measurement Procedures

Basic predictive learning phenomena

Predictive learning schema with excitatory and inhibitory stimuli

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 4. Predictive Learning: Basic Variables and Theoretical Issues

Variables influencing predictive learning

Theoretical Issues

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 5. Predictive Learning: Applications

Basic and applied science

Direct classical conditioning of emotions

Indirect classical conditioning of emotions

Desensitization and sensitization procedures

Classical conditioning of word meaning

Classical conditioning of attitudes

Classical conditioning of drug tolerance

Summary

Key Terms

Part 3. Control Learning

Chapter 6. Control Learning: Basic Principles and Phenomena

Thorndike and Skinner

Apparatuses used to study control learning

Skinner’s contingency schema

Adaptive learning overview of predictive and control learning

Learned and unlearned appetitive and aversive stimuli

Discriminative stimuli and warning stimuli

Stimulus-response chains

Basic control learning phenomena

Species specific characteristics and control learning

Other basic control learning phenomena

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 7. Control Learning: Basic Variables and Theoretical Issues

Variables influencing control learning

Theoretical issues

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 8: Control Learning: Applications

Speech and Language (verbal symbolic behavior)

Parenting

Treating behavioral problems with non-verbal individuals

Treating behavioral problems with verbal individuals

Empirically validated therapeutic techniques

Using technology to facilitate control learning

Relapse prevention

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 9. Schedules of Reward and Maintenance of Learned Behavior

Skinnerian methodology

Skinner’s schema of intermittent schedules of reinforcement

Why do ratio schedules produce higher response rates than interval schedules?

Maintenance of learned behavior

Differential reinforcement schedules as alternatives to punishment

Extinction as an alternative to punishment

Non-contingent reinforcement as an alternative to punishment

Summary

Key Terms

Part 4. The Human Condition

Chapter 10. Personality, Socialization, and Culture

Multiple schedules, personality, and culture

Stimulus control, baseball, and the human condition

Measuring stimulus control in the laboratory

Determinants of stimulus control test patterns

The peak shift and Spence’s model of discrimination learning

Attention theory and discrimination learning

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 11. Becoming Human and Transforming the Human Condition

Concept learning

Learning to learn

Basic research in problem-solving

The general problem-solving process

Tools, technology, and the human condition

The phonetic alphabet and Arabic numbering system

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 12. Becoming Human through Indirect Social Learning

Observational learning

Speech and language

Preparing for school and the 3 Rs

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 13. Individual and Cultural Self-Actualization

The Nukak’s physiological needs

The Nukak’s shelter and safety needs

The Nukak’s love and interpersonal needs

The Nukak’s esteem needs

The Nukak’s self-actualization needs

Our physiological needs

Our shelter and safety needs

Our love and interpersonal needs

Developmental tasks and stages for the Nukak and us

Our esteem needs

Our self-actualization needs

Bridges, globalization, and the human condition

Summary

Key Terms

Chapter 14. Self-Actualization through Self-Control

Concurrent schedules and the matching law

Self-control – magnitude and delay of reinforcement

Matching, impulsiveness, and adaptive learning

Determinism and Freedom

Lightning, sharks, and human predators

Will Power and Self-Control

Self-Control as Problem Solving

Improving the human condition through humanistic ecology

Summary

Key Terms

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