ABSTRACT

Attempts to understand the complexities of animal and human behavior through the development of a single theoretical perspective by experimental psychologists and other behavioral scientists of this century have been relatively unsuccessful. Nothing has proven to be simple as questions regarding parameters and dynamics of behavior have been addressed Though the operations necessary to obtain classical and instrumental conditioning seem simple enough, it has proven very difficult to define satisfactorily the processes which differentiate even these basic forms of learning (Rescorla & Holland, 1982).