Latent Inhibition and Conditioned Attention Theory (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 9) – R. E. Lubow Beperkte Voorraad

R.E. Lubow offers a complete survey of the basic data that comprise the latent inhibition effect, and a review of theories that attempt to explain it. He then elaborates on his own Conditioned Attention Theory and derives applications for learned helplessness and schizophrenia. Latent inhibition is an exquisitely simple, robust, and pervasive behavioral phenomenon–the reduced ability of an organism to learn new associations to previously inconsequential stimuli. It has been demonstrated in a variety of ani…