Neal E. Miller's pioneering work in experimental psychology has
earned him worldwide respect. This first of a two-volume collection
of his work brings together twenty-one of Miller's most important
and representative essays on conflict, displacement, learned
drives, and theory. They were selected for both their current
relevance and their historical significance.
The theoretical and experimental analysis of conflict behavior
in Part I grew out of an interest in applying the laws of learning
that Pavlov discovered in the laboratory to certain phenomena that
Freud discovered in the clinic. This led naturally to a similar
analysis of displacement in Part II and also to the studies of fear
as a learnable drives in Part III.
In contrast with the ease of establishing learned fear on the
basis of pain, the studies in Part IV show that it is much more
difficult, and perhaps impossible, to establish learned appetitive
drives on the basis of hunger or thirst. In the first experiments
on drugs, Part V attempted to test the applicability of some of the
principles discovered by Pavlov in experiments on classical
conditioning to the trial-and-error learning situation studied by
Thorndike and now frequently called operant conditioning. Later
studies of drugs are closely related to the work on fear and
conflict and, hence, are grouped nearby.
The first of the theoretical chapters in Part VI summarizes the
work on conflict behavior as well as many of my other theoretical
ideas, including a cybernetic analysis of behavior. Another chapter
is the result of an assignment to represent behavioral sciences,
from physiology through anthropology.
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