Conditioning, Cognition, and Methodology: Contemporary Issues in Experimental Psychology - Hardcover

Sidowski, Joseph B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819174963 ISBN 13: 9780819174963

Publisher: University Press of America, 1989

Synopsis

This volume consists of eleven chapters divided into three sections. The first section consists of a single chapter written by William F. Prokasy, whose contribution provides a description of the academic work and research of David A. Grant, to whom this book is dedicated. Section two contains six chapters and is entitled Conditioning and Cognition. The contributions contained in this section most clearly reflect the interests of Grant: classical conditioning, learning, concept formation, and cognition. In most instances the authors provide detailed reports of research unreported elsewhere. Theoretical interpretations are provided as required. The third section, Methodology, has four chapters and provides fewer detailed reports of individual research. It is also a section covering a broad spectrum of methods, from the 'Measurement of Importance in Multiattribute Models' to a brief description of some of the contributions made by psychologists in the development of a technique described to replace direct questionnaires in personal surveys, some methodology in human ethology, and a treatise covering a topic of international concern, early nutritional deprivation research. All reflect in some way Grant's great concern for methodology.

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Review

A thorough review of David Grant's career as teacher, editor, and researcher is ably presented by William F. Prokasy in the introductory chapter. The remainder of the book's chapters cover a remarkable range of topics.--Contemporary Psychology

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819174963
• ISBN 13: 9780819174963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286