Learning, Motivation, and Their Physiological Mechanisms
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Gerald M. Senf
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Goal Box
Gordon H. Bower
Heart Rate Training
hypothalamic stimulation
instrumental
Instrumental Learning
instrumental learning of visceral responses
Isotonic Saline
J. L. Slangen
James A. F. Stevenson
James B. Hamilton
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Lateral Hypothalamus
Learned Heart Rate
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M. David Egger
Marion L. Kessen
Medial Forebrain Bundle
Milena Levak
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Mock Injection
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Normal Hunger
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Paul Woodrow
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Robert I. Sampliner
Ronald M. Paolino
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Satiated Rat
Skeletal Responses
Skinner Box
Sprague Dawley Strain
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- ISBN 9780202361437
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Neal E. Miller's pioneering work in experimental psychology has earned him worldwide respect. This second in a two-volume collection of his work brings together forty-three of Miller's most important and representative essays on learning, motivation, and their physiological mechanisms. They were selected on the basis of their current relevance and their historical significance at the time they were published. In order to emphasize the main themes, essays on a given topic have been grouped together.Learning, Motivation, and Their Physiological Mechanisms begins when the author first discovered the thrill of designing and executing experiments to get clear-cut answers concerning the behavior of children and of rats. The first study was one of the earliest ones on the behavioral effects of the recently synthesized male hormone, testosterone. The second was one of the earliest studies demonstrating the value of using a variety of behavioral techniques to investigate the motivational effects of a physiological intervention. The next studies investigated the satisfying and rewarding effects of food or water in the stomach versus in the mouth and the thirst-inducing and reducing effects of hyper- and hypotonic solutions, respectively, injected into the brain. The last study describes a technique devised for extending the analysis of the mechanism of hunger to the effects of humoral factors in the blood.The study is completed with an examination of trial-and-error learning that was motivated by direct electrical stimulation of the brain and rewarded by the termination of such stimulation. Other studies show that the stimulation via such electrodes not only elicits eating, but also has the principal motivational characteristics of normal hunger. The conclusion deals with a series of experiments that overthrows strong traditional beliefs by proving that glandular and visceral responses mediated by the autonomic nervous system are subject to instrumental learning, which can be made quite specific.
Neal E. Miller (1909-2002) was a professor of psychology at Yale University and professor and head of a laboratory of Physiological Psychology at the Rockefeller University. He is a past president of the American Psychological Association, an elected honorary fellow of the British Psychological Society, and chairman of the National Research Council Committee on Brain Sciences. He is co-author of four books and author of many articles.
