Social learning and imitation - Miller, Neal Edgar (London : Yale University Press, 1941)
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; I. Learning : Its Conditions and Principles; II. Four Fundamentals of Learning; A Simple Experiment; Factors Involved in Learning; Drive; Cue; Response; Reward; Summary; III. Significant Details of the Learning Process; Extinction; Spontaneous Recovery; Generalization; Discrimination; Gradient in the Effects of Reward; Anticipatory Response; IV. A Basis for Acquired Drives and Acquired Rewards; V. Higher Mental Processes; Innate Bases for Adjustment; Acquired Cue Value; Acquired Equivalence of Cues; Foresight LanguageReasoning; VI. A Pattern Case of Imitation; A Case of Matched-Dependent Behaviour; Analysis of the Behaviour of the Imitator Child; Analysis of Leader's Behaviour; Complete Paradigm of Matched-Dependent Behaviour; VII. The Learning and the Generalization of Imitation : Experiments on Animals; Experiment 1: Learning to Imitate; Apparatus; Subjects; Procedure; Results; Experiment 2: Generalization to Leaders of Different Colour; Experiment 3: Generalization From One Drive to Another; Experiment 4: Generalization From One Environment to Another; Summary and Discussion VIII. The Learning of Imitation : Experiments on ChildrenExperiment 5: Learning of Imitation By Children; Experiment 6: Generalization of Imitation; IX. Varying Cases of Matched-Dependent Behaviour; Case 1. Common Goal But Differing Responses; Case 2. Secondary Reward; Case 3: Testing; Case 4: Secondary Drives of Imitation and Rivalry; Imitative Versus Environmental Cues; X. Copying : The Ro^le of Sameness and Difference; XI. The Prestige of Models : Experiments on Children; Experiment 7: Learning to Discriminate Between Leaders3 Experiment 8: The Generalization of Prestige or Lack of Prestige to New LeadersExperiment 9: The Leader's Prestige as a Model Generalizing From One Response to Another; The Verbal Responses of the Children; Summary; XII. The Social Conditions Producing Imitation; Age-Grade Superiors
Keywords: Social psychology; Imitation; Learning, psychology of; Social learning; Influence (Psychology)