Learning: Principles and Applications - Softcover

Klein, Stephen B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070350523 ISBN 13: 9780070350526

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1987

Synopsis

This text is intended for the intermediate and upper level courses on learning. It includes both animal and human research and covers verbal learning and memory as well as basic conditioning principles. Each chapter begins with a real-life story to introduce students to the material in that chapter and to stimulate their interest.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen B. Klein (Phd, Psychology, Rutgers University) is a Professor of the Department of Psychology at Mississippi State University, where he has taught since 1990. He teaches a variety of undergraduate classes, including Learning Principles and Processes, Human Learning and Thinking, Theories of Learning, and Quantitative Methods, as well as graduate classes in Advanced Learning, Advanced Learning and Motivation, and Advanced Experimental Methods. His research interests are in the biological basis of learning and memory and constraints and predispositions on food preferences and aversions. His early research included investigations of aversive conditioning and flavor aversion learning. Klein has written and co-edited a number of textbooks, including Contemporary Learning Theories: Pavlovian Conditioning and the Status of Traditional Learning Theory; Handbook of Contemporary Learning Theories; and Biological Psychology, Second Edition.

Review:

“An approachable text that provides the detail needed to teach a course in the Psychology of Learning while not overwhelming the students.” (Charles A. Gramlich)

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0070350523
• ISBN 13: 9780070350526
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 589