ABSTRACT
The title of the first edition of this book was Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition (Levy, 2013). The title of the second edition has been expanded to Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition: Behavior Modification and the Helping Professions. The change in titles and coverage is the result of feedback received from reviewers and students. They responded favorably to key differences between my book and others used for the traditional undergraduate psychology course in Learning. My approach emphasized applications of the extensive animal learning research literature to humans and connected basic learning principles to developmental, abnormal, and social psychology. The current edition includes those same emphases but also targets students in the broad range of helping professions.
