Introduction To Learning And Behavior

Designed to apply learning theory and principles to the presentation of learning, this text shows how learning principles work in both animals and people. On nearly every page of the book, the authors show how the study of learning helps solve practical problems, such as learning to improve study skills, conquer weight problems, improve relationships, raise children, and effectively stop smoking. This basic book is both solidly based in research and engaging for the student.

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).