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Author: Wanda Wyrwicka
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.360kg
ISBN: 9781560004325
ISBN 10: 1560004320
Pages: 108
Publication Date: 31 July 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p> Wyrwicka (UCLA School of Medicine) describes the determining role of situational stimuli on the generalization of responses in both the classical and operant paradigm. She relates historical and present-day research to support the importance of considering environmental variables in experimental outcomes and describes how contextual cues can facilitate or hinder the transference of adaptive responding to similar and dissimilar situations. The author makes a case for conditioning being an internal event rather than primarily related to external cues... Although this book should be of interest in psychology collections serving both students and faculty, it should particularly interest the experimental or the applied behavior analyst... Those trained in the Skinnerian mode may be tantalized by language conversion issues associated with familiar concepts. The reconceptualization of the familiar may provide a refreshing perspective and become a fountain of productive ideas. Upper-division undergraduates and above. <p> --L. G. Worthy, Choice
Wyrwicka (UCLA School of Medicine) describes the determining role of situational stimuli on the generalization of responses in both the classical and operant paradigm. She relates historical and present-day research to support the importance of considering environmental variables in experimental outcomes and describes how contextual cues can facilitate or hinder the transference of adaptive responding to similar and dissimilar situations. The author makes a case for conditioning being an internal event rather than primarily related to external cues... Although this book should be of interest in psychology collections serving both students and faculty, it should particularly interest the experimental or the applied behavior analyst... Those trained in the Skinnerian mode may be tantalized by language conversion issues associated with familiar concepts. The reconceptualization of the familiar may provide a refreshing perspective and become a fountain of productive ideas. Upper-division undergraduates and above. </p> --L. G. Worthy, <em>Choice</em></p>
Author Information
Wanda Wyrwicka is senior scientist from the University of California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. She is author of The Development of Food Preferences, The Mechanisms of Conditioned Behavior, and Brain and Feeding Behavior.
