Incentive Relativity
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521658638
Subjects: Behavior; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Reward (Psychology); Physiological Psychology
First sentence: The assumption that learning, at least trial and error learning, is based on the production of pleasure and elimination of displeasure was fundamental to the views of Herbert Spencer (1870), Alexander Bain (1855), and Thorndike (1911; see discussion in Boakes, 1984).