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  • Frustration Theory: An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory

    Frustration Theory by Amsel, Abram;

    An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory

    Series: Problems in the Behavioural Sciences; 11;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 31 July 1992

    • ISBN 9780521247849
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages296 pages
    • Size 237x159x21 mm
    • Weight 536 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 68 b/w illus. 6 tables
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    Short description:

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

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    Long description:

    We live in a world in which inconsistency is the rule rather than the exception and this is particularly true for rewards and frustrations. In some cases, rewards and frustrative non-rewards appear randomly for what seems to be the same behaviour; in others a sequence of rewards is suddenly followed by non-rewards, or large rewards by small rewards. The important common factor in these and other cases is frustration - how we learn about it and how we respond to it. This book provides a basis in learning theory and particularly in frustration theory, for a comprehension not only of the mechanisms controlling these dispositions, but also of their order of appearance in early development and, to an approximation at least, their neural underpinnings.

    '... a fundamental reference for all work on the Proterozoic ... a compulsory buy for any institution teaching Earth history.' Euan Nisbet, New Scientist

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: reward-schedule effects and dispositional learning; 2. Motivational and associative mechanisms of behavior; 3. Frustration theory: an overview of its experimental basis; 4. Survival, durability, and transfer of persistence; 5. Discrimination learning and prediscrimination effects; 6. Alternatives and additions to frustration theory; 7. Ontogeny of dispositional learning and the reward-schedule effects; 8. Toward a developmental psychobiology of dispositional learning and memory; 9. Summing up: steps in the psychobiological study of related behavioral effects; 10. Application to humans: a recapitulation and an addendum; Appendix; References; Indexes.

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