Fundamentals of Learning: A Behavioral Approach

Fundamentals of Learning: A Behavioral Approach discusses the basic mechanisms of learning. It highlights how most behaviors are learned through minimal amounts of cognitive processing and acquired through associations between stimuli, such as observed in classical and operant conditioning (associative learning) and repeated experiences with a single stimulus (nonassociative learning).

Together, in combination with innate or instinctual behaviors, these forms of learning account for the acqu...