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Frustration Theory: An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory »

Authors: Abram Amsel, Jeffrey Gray (Editor), Michael Gelder
ISBN-13: 9780521289603, ISBN-10: 0521289602
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

This book provides a basis in learning theory and particularly in frustration theory.

	Preface
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction: reward-schedule effects and dispositional learning	1
2	Motivational and associative mechanisms of behavior	12
3	Frustration theory: an overview of its experimental basis	34
4	Survival, durability, and transfer of persistence	61
5	Discrimination learning and prediscrimination effects	94
6	Alternatives and additions to frustration theory	122
7	Ontogeny of dispositional learning and the reward-schedule effects	137
8	Toward a developmental psychobiology of dispositional learning and memory	174
9	Summing up: steps in the psychobiological study of related behavioral effects	205
10	Applications to humans: a recapitulation and an addendum	216
	Appendix: some phenomena predicted or explained by frustration theory	233
	References	238
	Name index	267
	Subject index	274