1st Edition
Mechanisms of Learning and Motivation A Memorial Volume To Jerzy Konorski
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Psychology Press
460 Pages
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Psychology Press
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This volume consists of a series of chapters honoring a Polish psychologist and neurophysiologist who died in 1973. Although his name was familiar to all of the contributors, many had had no personal contact with him and had gained acquaintance with his ideas only through his publications.
1: Jerzy Konorski and Western Psychology; 2: Classical Conditioning as the Formation of Interstimulus Associations: Stimulus Substitution, Parasitic Reinforcement, and Autoshaping; 3: Habituation and Memory; 4: Conditioned Inhibition and Extinction; 5: Brain Processes and Conditioning; 6: Instrumental (Type II) Conditioning; 7: Motivational Processes; 8: Appetitive—Aversive Interactions and Inhibitory Processes; 9: Interactions Between Type I and Type II Processes Involving Positive Reinforcement; 10: Extinction, Inhibition, and Differentiation Learning; 11: Brain Mechanisms in the Inhibition of Behavior; 12: Cortical Mechanisms and The Inhibition of Instrumental Responses; 13: The Study of Association: Methodology and Basic Phenomena; 14: Selective Associations; 15: Constraints on Conditioning in the Writings of Konorski; 16: Cognitive Processes in Conditioning
Biography
Anthony Dickinson, University of Cambridge, UK. Robert A.Boakes, University of Sussex, Brighton.
