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Learning and Complex Behavior describes basic biobehavioral processes and explores their implications for complex human behavior. The basic processes include natural selection, selection by reinforcement, generalization, discrimination, conditioned reinforcement, schedules of reinforcement, and associated phenomena. The complex behavior includes stimulus classes (“concepts”), attending, perceiving, remembering, imagining, problem solving, and verbal behavior together with related findings from neuroscience and neuropsychology. Because the principles rest upon well-established experimental findings, new results reported on the website rarely alter the approach fundamentally but instead permit their implications to be pursued more fully. The website complements—but does not replace—the original edition. If you are considering purchase of the book, select the button labeled To buy book.
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