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Learning Theory and Behaviour Modification, Hardback Book

Learning Theory and Behaviour Modification Hardback

Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education series

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The ability to learn is of crucial importance in human life, but understanding this ability has proved to be difficult.

There have been many attempts to formulate scientific theories based on both animal experiments and human experience; and these have been applied to education and the treatment of psychological disturbance, with a certain amount of success. Originally published in 1984, this incisive guide to the research and its outcomes provides the background to one of the most debated topics in psychology today.

Learning Theory and Behaviour Modification introduces the work of major figures, such as Pavlov and Skinner, which has strongly influenced theories in educational and clinical psychology, and formed the basis of the techniques known as ‘behaviour modification’.

As well as giving examples of these techniques the author relates new ideas about the scope and limits of behaviour modification to recent changes in the views of learning theorists.

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