Pleasure, Reward, Preference

Their Nature, Determinants, and Role in Behavior

D. E. Berlyne, K. B. Madsen, D. E. Berlyne, K. B. Madsen

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780120925506
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483273723
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Pleasure, Reward, Preference: Their Nature, Determinants, and Role in Behavior covers the proceedings of a symposium by the same title, held at the Klarskovgaard Training Institute, near Korsør, Denmark, on June 5-9 1972, organized under the auspices of the Advisory Group on Human Factors of the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This book is composed of 11 chapters, and starts with a historical perspective and review of the principal problems related to understanding the principles of pleasure, reward, and preference. The next chapters explore neurophysiological research with animals and the human cognitive phenomena. These topics are followed by discussions of the concept of exploratory choice, verbal judgment, the law of effects and an adaptation-level model for affectivity and perception. The concluding chapters provide examples of behavioristic theories and describe a process model of motivation to understand the complexity of cognition and predictability of behavior. These chapters also tackle the role of pleasure and reward in human motivation and learning, as well as present a metascientific frame of motivation. This text will prove useful to psychologists, behaviorist, and researchers.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Pleasure, Reward, Preference: Their Nature, Determinants, and Role in Behavior
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• CHAPTER 1. The Vicissitudes of Aplopathematic and Thelematoscopic Pneumatology (or The Hydrography of Hedonism)
• CHAPTER 2. Brain Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning
• CHAPTER 3. Psychological Complexity and Preference: A Hedgehog Theory of Behavior
• CHAPTER 4. Meaning of Perceptual Complexity
• CHAPTER 5. Exploratory Choice and Verbal Judgment
• CHAPTER 6. Personality and the Law of Effect
• CHAPTER 7. A Common Model for Affectivity and Perception: An Adaptation-Level Approach
• CHAPTER 8. Acquired Pleasantness and Conditioned Incentives in Verbal Learning
• CHAPTER 9. Intervening Cognitions in Motivation
• CHAPTER 10. Pleasure and Reward in Human Motivation and Learning
• CHAPTER 11. Patterns of Preference and Models of Motivation
• Author Index
• Subject Index