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"DONALD K. ROUTH WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A reader who happens onto this book on the library shelf may find the title a puzzle. Learning is one broad subject. Speech is another. And the ""complex effects of punishment"" might seem far afield from either. Perhaps, intrigued by this apparent diversity and wanting to discover what common theme underlies it, the reader may begin leafing through the chapters. The first one recounts a series of studies of rats-using learning techniques from the psychology laboratory, to be sure, but applied to the study of behavior genetics, sex differences, and aging. The second chapter has to do with young children's discrimination learning. Then, there is a chapter on learning sets. Next, there is a chapter on stuttering. Then the topic shifts back to the study of learning in rats. Then, there is a clinical chapter on punishment effects. Finally, there is a historically oriented essay on Iowa psychology graduates. Surely, by now the puzzled reader wants an explana­ tion of why such diversity belongs between the covers of a single book."

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Author:   Donald K. Routh
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.374kg
ISBN:  

9781468441987

ISBN 10:   1468441981
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- What This Book Is About.- Wischner’s Career.- Wischner’s Doctoral Students.- The San Antonio Symposium.- 2 Biological Contributions to the Study of Learning.- Prologue.- Background.- The Biological Analysis of Behavior.- Summary of Points and Issues.- Postlogue.- References.- 3 Cognitive Strategies in the Discrimination Learning of Young Children.- Some Background on Hypothesis Testing in Young Children.- Some Considerations in the Study of Hypothesis Testing in Kindergarten Children.- Demonstrations of Cognitive Strategies in Younger Children.- Some Factors Affecting the Solution of Discrimination Problems.- Discussion and Summary.- References.- 4 Learning Sets: The Pittsburgh Studies.- LS and Species Differences.- LS and Child Development.- LS and Mental Retardation.- The Pittsburgh Studies by Wischner and His Associates.- Conclusions and Implications.- References.- 5 Feedback and Motor Control in Stuttering.- Feedback.- Motor Control.- Conclusion.- References.- 6 Facilitating Stimulus Effects of Reward and Punishment: Discriminability as a General Principle.- History of Research on Shock-Right Facilitation.- The Shock-Right Paradigm as an Experimental Assay.- Elaboration of the Discriminability Process.- References.- 7 The Clinical Uses of Punishment: Bane or Boon?.- Punishment as a Technique to Be Avoided.- Some Personally Unsettling Research Findings.- New Discoveries and Theoretical Advances Concerning Punishment and Aversive Stimulation.- Abuses and Uses of Punishment with Children.- Some Clinical Uses of Punishment with Adults.- Punishment and Information Processing.- Conclusion.- References.- 8 Intellectual Progeny of Seashore and Spence: Iowa Psychologists.- The Guttman Scale of Eminence.- Overall Descriptive Information.- Early History ofthe Iowa Psychology Department.- Information on Individual Eminent Graduates.- Discussion.- References.

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