Learning and Behavior

Describes some of the most important principles, theories, and experiments including recent research with human subjects that have been produced by this branch of psychology in its first century. Topics include theories about physiological changes that may occur during the learning process; innate behaviors and habituation; classical conditioning; the various facets of operant conditioning; research on concept formation; observational learning and motor-skills learning; and behavioral research on choice behavior. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.