Latent inhibition is an exquisitely simple, robust and pervasive behavioural phenomenon - the reduced ability of an organism to learn new associations to previously inconsequential stimuli. It has been demonstrated in a variety of animals, including humans, across many different learning tasks. The...

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Main Author:	Lubow, Robert E. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1989
Series:	Problems in the behavioural sciences 9
Subjects:	Conditioned response Inhibition Attention Hemmung Latentes Lernen Aufmerksamkeit Bedingter Reflex
Online Access:	BSB01 FHN01 Volltext
Summary:	Latent inhibition is an exquisitely simple, robust and pervasive behavioural phenomenon - the reduced ability of an organism to learn new associations to previously inconsequential stimuli. It has been demonstrated in a variety of animals, including humans, across many different learning tasks. The ease of demonstrating the latent inhibition effect, on the one hand, is matched by the difficulty of incorporating it into contemporary conditioning and learning theories, on the other. R. E. Lubow offers a complete survey of the basic data that comprise the latent inhibition effect and a review of theories that attempt to explain it. He then elaborates his own Conditioned Attention Theory and derives applications for learned helplessness and schizophrenia. A wide range of experimental psychologists and neuroscientists will find this a stimulating and useful book for themselves and their students
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (ix, 324 pages)
ISBN:	9780511529849
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511529849