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Summary
Summary
Current research on conditioning and learning reflects three themes: a methodological behavioral theme that focuses on how certain experiences lead to changes in behavior, a cognitive theme that focuses on how experiences are represented in memory, and an evolutionary/adaptive behavior theme that focuses on the various kinds of learning as adaptive specializations that evolved through the mechanism of natural selection. These themes are interwoven to present an integrated and coherent account of our current state of knowledge in the area. The evolutionary/adaptive behavior theme is the central theme within which the cognitive and behavioral themes are developed here.
Author Notes
Dr. Hans Georg Fill promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Dimitris Karagiannis am Institut fr Knowledge and Business Engineering der Universitt Wien. Er ist als Universittsassistent an der Universitt Wien ttig und hlt Kurse an der cole Nationale Suprieure des Mines de Saint-tienne in Frankreich.
Table of Contents
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| 1 Where Learning Fits into the Big Picture | p. 5 |
| Part 1 Learning to Predict Important Events | p. 5 |
| 2 The Procedures and Phenomena We Call Pavlovian Conditioning | p. 25 |
| 3 Pavlovian Conditioning Is an Inference Task | p. 55 |
| 4 Identifying the Predictors of Significant Events | p. 73 |
| 5 The Representations of Knowledge in Pavlovian Conditioning | p. 91 |
| 6 From Knowledge to Behavior: The Forms and Functions of Pavlovian Conditioned Responses | p. 114 |
| Part 2 Learning About Consequences of One's Behavior | p. 133 |
| 7 The Procedures and Phenomena We Call Operant Conditioning | p. 133 |
| 8 How Individuals Adjust Their Behavior to Meet the Demands of the Situation | p. 174 |
| 9 Adjusting to Schedules of Partial Reinforcement | p. 196 |
| 10 Life Is About Making Choices | p. 216 |
| 11 Inference and the Representations of Knowledge in Operant Conditioning | p. 240 |
| 12 The Similarities Between Operant Conditioning and Natural Selection | p. 260 |
| Part 3 The Social Transmission of Knowledge | p. 272 |
| 13 Social Learning | p. 272 |
| Epilogue | p. 292 |
| Glossary | p. 295 |
| References | p. 309 |
| Photo Credits | p. 335 |
| Author Index | p. 337 |
| Subject Index | p. 343 |
