Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning (Paperback)

This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an analysis of what must be "wired into" the organism or machine. Once the basics of unlearned responding have been established, the authors then systematically show how learning mechanisms can be layered onto that foundation in ways that account for the performance of new, learned operations that eventually culminate in the acquisition of higher-order operations that involve concepts and language. This work is of interest to various practitioners engaged in analyzing and creating behavior: the ethnologist, the instructional designer, the learning psychologist, the physiologist-neurobiologist, and particularly the designer of intelligent machines.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	2003
Authors:	Siegfried Engelmann • Donald Steely
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	534
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-65515-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
LSN:	0-415-65515-3
Barcode:	9780415655156

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