The Discrimination Process and Development

International Series of Monographs in Experimental Psychology

Brian J. Fellows

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780080125213
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483153667
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The Discrimination Process and Development, Volume 5 covers the fields of behavioral theory and experimental child psychology. This book aims to develop the theory of the discrimination process and relate this theory to certain features of the perceptual and cognitive development of the child. Organized into 21 chapters, this volume starts with a discussion of discrimination process whereby an organism responds to differences between stimuli. This text then discusses the classical discrimination experiment whereby it employs two discriminative stimuli, one of which is positive and the other negative. Other chapters consider the developmental aspects of the discrimination process. The final chapter deals with the hypothesis analysis of matching performances. This book is intended to be suitable for psychology students who are looking for an area of research less restricted than conventional learning theory, and more significant to pressing practical problems. Child psychologists and experimentalists will also find this book useful.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• The Discrimination Process and Development
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 2. CLASSICAL THEORIES OFDISCRIMINATION LEARNING
• CHAPTER 3. ORIENTING ACTIVITY INDISCRIMINATION IN ANIMALS
• CHAPTER 4. ORIENTING AND ATTENTION INCHILDREN
• CHAPTER 5. ATTENTION, STRATEGIES AND AGE
• CHAPTER 6. ORIENTING AND PLANNING
• CHAPTER 7. S-R SPATIAL CONTIGUITY ANDORIENTING
• CHAPTER 8. SWITCHING-IN STIMULUS ANALYSERSAND CODING RESPONSES
• CHAPTER 9. DISCRIMINATION TRAINING AND THEACQUIRED DISTINCTIVENESS OF CUESHYPOTHESIS
• CHAPTER 10. PROGRAMMING A DISCRIMINATION
• CHAPTER 11. MEDIATIONAL PROCESSES ANDLANGUAGE
• CHAPTER 12. KENDLER'S MODEL OF DISCRIMINATIONPERFORMANCE
• CHAPTER 13. THE MATCHING-TO-SAMPLE TASK
• CHAPTER 14. A MODEL OF MATCHING ANDDISCRIMINATION PERFORMANCE
• CHAPTER 15. THE PERCEPTUAL PROCESS
• CHAPTER 16. PERCEPTION OF ORIENTATION BYCHILDREN
• CHAPTER 17. LEARNING AND THE PERCEPTIONOF ORIENTATION
• CHAPTER 18. LATERALITY AND THE PERCEPTIONOF ORIENTATION
• CHAPTER 19. ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION INANIMALS
• CHAPTER 20. PERCEPTUAL ACTIVITY INDISCRIMINATION BEHAVIOUR
• CHAPTER 21. SUMMARY
• REFERENCES
• AUTHOR INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX