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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2010
Print publication year:
1992
Online ISBN:
9780511665561
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511665561
Subjects:
Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Neurosciences
Series:
Problems in the Behavioural Sciences (11)
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We live in a world in which inconsistency is the rule rather than the exception and this is particularly true for rewards and frustrations. In some cases, rewards and frustrative non-rewards appear randomly for what seems to be the same behaviour; in others a sequence of rewards is suddenly followed by non-rewards, or large rewards by small rewards. The important common factor in these and other cases is frustration - how we learn about it and how we respond to it. This book provides a basis in learning theory and particularly in frustration theory, for a comprehension not only of the mechanisms controlling these dispositions, but also of their order of appearance in early development and, to an approximation at least, their neural underpinnings.

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‘… a fundamental reference for all work on the Proterozoic … a compulsory buy for any institution teaching Earth history.’

Euan Nisbet Source: New Scientist

‘… most of the contributions are short and to the point … must be considered a landmark in Precambrian geology, and a major achievement that so many outstanding scientists were organized into producing a volume that encompasses a large subject area and includes a significant contribution of new data.’

Source: Palaeo

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Source: Palaeo

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