Incentive Relativity

Klappentext Incentive relativity is the study of the irritation and disappointment shown by animals and humans when they fail to obtain an expected reward, and this book provides a full account of the subject. Zusammenfassung Incentive relativity is the study of the irritation and disappointment shown by animals and humans when they fail to obtain an expected reward! and this book provides a full account of the subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Prologue; 1. Brief history of reward magnitude research; 2. Successive contrast: procedures and parameters; 3. Successive contrast: psychopharmacology and neurobiology; 4. Successive contrast: theories; 5. Anticipatory and simultaneous contrast; 6. Contrast with differential conditioning in runway and operant tasks; 7. Summary and epilogue; Appendix; References; Author index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Flaherty, Charles F Flaherty, Charles F. Flaherty, Charles F. (Rutgers University Flaherty
• Assisted by: Michael Gelder (Editor), Jeffrey Gray (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.1999
• EAN: 9780521658638
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65863-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Problems in the Behavioral Sci
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology