Psychology of Learning and Behavior

Barry Schwartz, StevenRobbins, and new coauthor Edward Wasserman offer students an engagingintroduction to the basic principles of Pavlovian conditioning, operantconditioning, and comparative cognition. The text's critical approachexposes students to the unresolved problems and controversiessurrounding behavior theory and encourages them to interpret thematerial and make connections between theories and real-lifesituations. With several hundred new references, a new emphasis oncomparative cognition, and expanded treatment of neuroscience and theneural basis of learning, the Fifth Edition sets the standard in itscoverage of contemporary theory and research.