Learning Theory and the Symbolic Processes.

New York-London, John Wiley & Sons cm.15,5x23,5, pp.XIV,473, alcune figg.in bn.nt., legatura ed.in tutta tela nera, titoli in oro al piatto ant.e al dorso, sopraccop. (traccia di etichetta al dorso della sopraccop. e sigla di appartenenza al frontesp. ma copia in buono stato.) Developments in behavioral science pertaining to the symbolic processes. This book describes and interprets these developments. The special idea which emerges is that of imagery and, with it, the whole domain of cognitive (symbolic) processes and consciousness. Attention toe the crucial but neglected problem of mediation and meaning. The author deals with the psychology of language, expanding and strengthening his system by the addition of the old but long-outlawed concept of imagery. This approach enables him to undergird [sic] and develop the representational concept of thought, replacing the thoughtlessness of Primitive Behaviorism yet retaining a modified stimulus-response framework. Insight and reasoning are also considered in this context.…