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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.
The Procedures and Phenomena We Call Pavlovian Conditioning
The Procedures and Phenomena We Call Pavlovian Conditioning
Although sometimes our lives seem chaotic, for the most part the world is an orderly place where things happen in rather predictable ways, and being able to detect these regularities allows us to anticipate events and adjust our behavior accordingly. Identifying stimuli that predict the occurrence of good things (like food, shelter, safety, and sexual partners) increases our chances of successfully obtaining them, and identifying warning signals for bad things helps us escape or avoid them (if that is possible). Survival would be difficult, if not impossible, if we could not learn about what events lead to other events in our environment.
The ability to identify relationships between events is ...
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