Introduction To Learning And Behavior - Softcover

Powell, Russell A.; Symbaluk, Diane G.; MacDonald, Suzanne E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534634516 ISBN 13: 9780534634513

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 2004

Synopsis

Designed to apply learning theory and principles to the presentation of learning, this text shows how learning principles work in both animals and people. Throughout the book, the authors show how the study of learning helps solve practical problems, such as improving study skills, improving relationships, raising children, and effectively stopping smoking. This book is both solidly based in research and engaging for the student. To help ensure that students understand the materials, the authors strategically include multiple opportunities for review and self-testing within the text.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Russell Powell earned his Ph.D. in psychology under the late Frank Epling and David Pierce at the University of Alberta. Now serving as the Chair of Psychology and Sociology at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Dr. Powell was the first instructor to develop and offer university-level courses via "computer-managed learning", a nontraditional, alternative delivery format. He has taught and published across a diverse range of areas such as social psychology, experimental psychology, operant conditioning, sleep paralysis nightmares and Freud criticism. Recently, Dr. Powell has become involved in the controversy over the nature and causes of dissociative identity disorder, coauthoring articles promoting a social learning perspective that have appeared in Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (Powell and Gee, 1999) and Psychological Bulletin (Lilienfeld et al., 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534634516
• ISBN 13: 9780534634513
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 547