Table of Contents

Section I: Overview

Things you always wanted to know about conditioning, but were afraid to ask
Todd R. Schachtman and Steve Reilly

Section II: Applications to Clinical Pathology

Fear extinction and emotional processing theory: A critical review
Seth J. Gillihan and Edna Foa

Fear Conditioning and Attention to Threat: An Integrative Approach to Understanding the Etiology of Anxiety Disorders
Katherine Oehlberg and Susan Mineka

Behavioral techniques to reduce relapse after exposure therapy: Applications of studies of experimental extinction
Mario A. Laborda, Bridget L. McConnell, and Ralph R. Miller

Learning and anxiety
Peter F. Lovibond

Trauma, learned helplessness, its neuroscience and implication for PTSD
Vincent M. LoLordo and J. Bruce Overmier

Abberant attentional processes in schizophrenia as reflected in latent inhibition data
Robert E. Lubow

Discrimination learning process in autism: spectrum disorders: A comparator theory
Phil Reed

Section III: Applications to Health and Addiction

Conditioned immunomodulation
Jennifer L. Szczytkowski and Donald T. Lysle

Learning, expectancy and conditioning: Human and animal applications
M. Vogel-Sprott and Mark T. Fillmore

Applications of Contemporary Learning Theory in the Treatment of Drug Abuse
Danielle E. McCarthy, Timothy B. Baker, Haruka Minami, and Vivian Yeh

Internal stimuli generated by abused substances: Role of Pavlovian conditioning and its implications for drug addiction
Rick A. Bevins and Jennifer E. Murray

Learning to eat: The influence of food cues on what, when and how much we eat
Janet Polivy, C. Peter Herman, and Laura Girz

Conditional analgesia, negative feedback & error correction
Moriel Zelikowsky and Michael S. Fanselow

Incentives in the modification and cessation of cigarette smoking
Edwin B. Fisher, Leonard Green, Amanda L. Calvert, & Russell E. Glasgow


Section IV: Applications to Cognition, Social Interaction and Motivation

Social learning and connectionism
Frank Van Overwalle

Application of associative learning paradigms to clinically relevant individual differences in cognitive processing
Teresa A. Treat, John L. Kruschke, Richard J. Viken, and Richard M. McFall

A review of procedural knowledge about the mental process models of evaluative conditioning
Jan De Houwer

Instrumental and Pavlovian Conditioning Analogues of Familiar Social Processes
Robert Ervin Cramer and Robert Frank Weiss

The impact of social cognition on emotional learning from and about others: A neurobiological perspective
Andreas Olsson

Conditioning and marketing
Todd R. Schachtman, Jennifer Walker and Stephanie Wade

Applications of Pavlovian conditioning to sexual behavior and reproduction
Michael Domjan and Chana K. Akins

Hot and bothered: Classical conditioning of sexual incentives in humans
Heather Hoffman

About the Author

Todd Schachtman obtained his Ph.D. from SUNY-Binghamton examining research on conditioning and associative learning. He then served as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of York in England for 18 months and then for 18 months at the University of Rochester Medical School. He has been a faculty member at the University of Missouri since 1988. Dr. Schachtman's research is on animal learning and conditioning and the role of metabotropic glutamate receptors
on learning and memory as well as additional research using human subjects.



Steve Reilly obtained his D.Phil. from the University of York, England, for research concerning the neural basis of learning and memory. He has held positions in Canada and the USA (Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine) and, since 1996, has been in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms and functional neuroanatomy of conditioned taste aversion learning and incentive learning. Dr. Reilly is currently on
the editorial boards of the International Journal of Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Reviews

"The editors and contributors are experts in learning and conditioning theory and they do a nice job of discussing a large number of important topics in the book's 573 pages. However, this is not an easy read, so a foundation in behavioral theory would be extremely helpful. Clinicians and researchers who use learning theory should definitely have this book in their libraries." -- Doody's