Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning

by Siegfried Engelmann and Donald Steely

Book Overview

This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an analysis of what must be "wired into" the organism or machine. Once the basics of unlearned responding have been established, the authors then systematically show how learning mechanisms can be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805845402
• ISBN13: 9780805845402
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"