1st Edition

Learning Mechanisms in Smoking

By William A. Hunt Copyright 1970
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    Psychologists have spent years studying the learning processes of the white rat, yet until recently they have neglected the laboratory of everyday social behavior for studying learning in man. In this book the leading experts in learning theory and pharmacology examine the role of learning mechanisms in smoking. The results provide new insights into the study of learning and determine new directions for future research on smoking and its control.

    1: Reviews of Relevant Literature; The Modification of Smoking Behavior: An Evaluative Review 1; Personality and Smoking: A Review of the Empirical Literature; 2: Learning Mechanisms and Smoking; Habit Mechanisms in Smoking; Comments on Paper by Hunt and Matarazzo; General Discussion; Mechanisms of Self-Control; Comments on Paper by Premack; General Discussion; The Smoking Habit 1; 1: Comments on Paper by Logan; General Discussion; 1: The Role of Nicotine in the Smoking Habit; Comments on Paper by Jarvik; General Discussion; 3: An Overview; A Sociologist’s Point of View; The Effects of Prolonged Alcohol Ingestion on the Eating, Drinking, and Smoking Patterns of Chronic Alcoholics; General Discussion

    Biography

    William A. Hunt