How the human condition relates to classical and instrumental conditioning   Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition emphasizes 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

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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