Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning - Hardcover

Engelmann, Siegfried; Steely, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805845402 ISBN 13: 9780805845402

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2003

Synopsis

This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an analysis of what must be "wired into" the organism or machine. Once the basics of unlearned responding have been established, the authors then systematically show how learning mechanisms can be layered onto that foundation in ways that account for the performance of new, learned operations that eventually culminate in the acquisition of higher-order operations that involve concepts and language.

This work is of interest to various practitioners engaged in analyzing and creating behavior: the ethnologist, the instructional designer, the learning psychologist, the physiologist-neurobiologist, and particularly the designer of intelligent machines.

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Siegfried Engelmann, Donald Steely

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805845402
• ISBN 13: 9780805845402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 534