Learning Mechanisms in Smoking de William A. Hunt

Learning Mechanisms in Smoking

William A. Hunt

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2007

Psychologists have spent years studying the learning processes of the white rat, yet until recently they have neglected the laboratory of everyday social behavior for studying learning in man. In this book the leading experts in learning theory and pharmacology examine the role of learning mechanisms in smoking. The results provide new insights into the study of learning and determine new directions for future research on smoking and its control.

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Cuprins

1: Reviews of Relevant Literature; The Modification of Smoking Behavior: An Evaluative Review 1; Personality and Smoking: A Review of the Empirical Literature; 2: Learning Mechanisms and Smoking; Habit Mechanisms in Smoking; Comments on Paper by Hunt and Matarazzo; General Discussion; Mechanisms of Self-Control; Comments on Paper by Premack; General Discussion; The Smoking Habit 1; 1: Comments on Paper by Logan; General Discussion; 1: The Role of Nicotine in the Smoking Habit; Comments on Paper by Jarvik; General Discussion; 3: An Overview; A Sociologist’s Point of View; The Effects of Prolonged Alcohol Ingestion on the Eating, Drinking, and Smoking Patterns of Chronic Alcoholics; General Discussion

Descriere

Examines the role of learning mechanisms in smoking. This book discusses the role played by habit in smoking, defining habit in terms of "fixed behavior patterns, over learned to the point of becoming automatic, and marked by decreasing awareness and increasing dependency on secondary rather than primary reinforcement."