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I. Mechanistic Versus Cognitive Views. Introduction: Animate Versus Inanimate Behavior. Human Behavior Versus Infrahuman Behavior. Thought Versus Action As Scientific Data -- Types Of Mechanistic And Cognitive Theories -- Learning And Motivation -- Ii. Drive Theory. Historical Antecedents: The Instinct Doctrine. Original Conceptions Of Drive. Early Experimental Work. -- Scientists Who Influenced Hull: Charles Darwin. John B. Watson. Edward L. Thorndike. Ivan P. Pavlov. Curt P. Richter. Alfred N. Whitehead And Bertrand Russell. -- The Basic Concepts Of Hull's Theory: Learning. Drive. The Integration Of Habit And Drive. The Emergence Of Incentives -- Empirical Support For Drive Theory: Investigations With Infrahuman Subjects. Investigations Of Human Behavior. Evidence For Drive As A Pooled Source Of Energy -- Theoretical Extensions: Frustration. Conflict -- Associationism Without A Drive Construct: Drive Stimuli --^ Some Shortcomings Of Drive Theory: Problems In Predicting Speed Of Verbal Learning. Problems In The Conceptual Analysis Of Incentives. The Nondirective Conception Of Drive And Some Experimental Confounding. Secondary Drive And Secondary Reinforcement. Conceptualization Of

Author

Bernard Weiner

Publisher

Rand McNally College Pub. Co

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780528620188

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences