Frustration Theory - Abram Amsel

Frustration Theory

An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
1992
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-24784-9 (ISBN)
144,65 inkl. MwSt
This book provides a basis in learning theory and particularly in frustration theory, for a comprehension of the mechanisms controlling these dispositions, their order of appearance in early development and their neural underpinnings.
We live in a world in which inconsistency is the rule rather than the exception and this is particularly true for rewards and frustrations. In some cases, rewards and frustrative non-rewards appear randomly for what seems to be the same behaviour; in others a sequence of rewards is suddenly followed by non-rewards, or large rewards by small rewards. The important common factor in these and other cases is frustration - how we learn about it and how we respond to it. This book provides a basis in learning theory and particularly in frustration theory, for a comprehension not only of the mechanisms controlling these dispositions, but also of their order of appearance in early development and, to an approximation at least, their neural underpinnings.

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: reward-schedule effects and dispositional learning; 2. Motivational and associative mechanisms of behavior; 3. Frustration theory: an overview of its experimental basis; 4. Survival, durability, and transfer of persistence; 5. Discrimination learning and prediscrimination effects; 6. Alternatives and additions to frustration theory; 7. Ontogeny of dispositional learning and the reward-schedule effects; 8. Toward a developmental psychobiology of dispositional learning and memory; 9. Summing up: steps in the psychobiological study of related behavioral effects; 10. Application to humans: a recapitulation and an addendum; Appendix; References; Indexes.

Reihe/Serie Problems in the Behavioural Sciences
Zusatzinfo 6 Tables, unspecified; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 67 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 237 mm
Gewicht 536 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Pädagogische Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-521-24784-5 / 0521247845
ISBN-13 978-0-521-24784-9 / 9780521247849
Zustand Neuware
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