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Conflict, Displacement, Learned Drives and Theory (Hardcover)
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Conflict, Displacement, Learned Drives and Theory (Hardcover)
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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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