TY - BOOK AU - Chance,Paul TI - Learning & behavior SN - 0534598684 (alk. paper) AV - BF319 .C35 PY - 2003/// CY - Australia, Belmont, CA PB - Thomson/Wadsworth KW - Conditioned response KW - Learning, Psychology of KW - Nature and nurture N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Learning to Change -- Natural Selection -- BOX: The Face of Change -- Reflexes -- Fixed Action Patterns -- General Behavior Traits -- The Limits of Natural Selection -- Learning: Evolved Modifiability -- Nature and Nurture -- BOX: The Superior Animal -- The Study of Learning and Behavior -- Learning Defined -- Learning Means Change -- What Changes Is Behavior -- BOX: Defining Operations -- What Changes Behavior Is Experience -- Measuring Learning -- Research Designs -- Anecdotal Evidence -- Descriptive Studies -- Experimental Studies -- Limitations of Experimental Research -- Animal Research and Human Learning -- Reasons for Animal Research -- Objections to Animal Research -- Questions About Learning -- Pavlovian Conditioning -- BOX: Ivan Pavlov: An Experimenter from Head to Foot -- Basic Procedures -- BOX: What's What in Pavlovian Conditioning? -- Higher-Order Conditioning -- Measuring Pavlovian Learning -- Variables Affecting Pavlovian Conditioning -- Pairing CS and US -- BOX: Pavlovian Flowchart -- CS-US Contingency -- CS-US Contiguity -- Stimulus Features -- Prior Experience with CS and US -- Number of CS-US Pairings -- Intertrial Interval -- Other Variables -- Extinction of Conditional Responses -- BOX: Edwin B. Twitmyer and What Might Have Been -- Theories of Conditioning -- Stimulus Substitution Theory -- Preparatory Response Theory -- BOX: Conditioning and Awareness -- Pavlovian Applications -- Fear -- BOX: Thank You, Albert -- BOX: What Rats Can Teach Us About Fear -- Prejudice -- Advertising ER -