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Learning: A Behavioral, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Synthesis provides an integrated account of the psychological processes involved in learning and conditioning and their influence on human behavior. With a skillful blend of behavioral, cognitive, and evolutionary themes, the text explores various types of learning as adaptive specialization that evolved through natural selection. Robust pedagogy and relevant examples bring concepts to life in this unique and accessible approach to the field.
From Knowledge to Behavior: The Forms and Functions of Pavlovian Conditioned Responses
From Knowledge to Behavior: The Forms and Functions of Pavlovian Conditioned Responses
In the last two chapters, we explored the conditions under which individuals learn about the relationships between events in their environment and how that knowledge is represented in memory. The conclusions we drew about the conditions of learning and the resulting associative structures were based on the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a CR, but for the most part, the form of that response was not relevant to those conclusions. However, knowledge is not acquired for its own sake. The mechanisms involved in the processing and representation of the relationships between environmental events evolved because they have some influence on the behavior ...
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