UID:
almahu_9948025904502882
Format:
1 online resource (527 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-79023-0
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9786611790233
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0-08-086667-0
Series Statement:
Advances in psychology ; 13
Content:
Contributed chapters by psychologists and behavioral biologists provide a broad coverage of animal behavior, and governing brain processes. Topics covered include: foraging behavior and strategies, economics and psychology, memory of events and space, time perception, expectancies, food preferences and diet selection, behavior variability and the concept of mind.The volume is designed to satisfy an intderdisciplinary audience, embracing the behavioristic tradition, biological and physiological approaches, and evolutionary theory as philosophical underpinnings to the chapters. Also achi
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Animal Cognition and Behavior; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1. BEHAVIORAL SUBSTITUTES AND COMPLEMENTS; CHAPTER 2. THE ANALYSIS OF NEED; CHAPTER 3. A ""MIXED"" MODEL OF TASTE PREFERENCE; CHAPTER 4. SPONTANEOUS BEHAVIOR: INFERENCES FROM NEUROSCIENCE; CHAPTER 5. SCHEDULE - INDUCED BEHAVIOR; CHAPTER 6. APPETITIVE STRUCTURE AND STRAIGHT ALLEY RUNNING; CHAPTER 7. MAZES, SKINNER BOXES AND FEEDING BEHAVIOR; CHAPTER 8. STUDYING FORAGING IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORABORY
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CHAPTER 9. CONDITIONED DEFENSIVE BURYING: A BIOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE APPROACH TO AVOIDANCE LEARNINGCHAPTER 10. BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS AND THE PURSUIT OF GENERAL THEORIES OF LEARNING; CHAPTER 11. PROPERTIES AND FUNCTION OF AN INTERNAL CLOCK; CHAPTER 12. THE MALLEABILITY OF MEMORY IN ANIMALS; CHAPTER 13. ON THE THEORY OF GENE-CULTURE CO-EVOLUTION IN A VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER 14. THE EFFECTS OF THE AVAILABILITY OF LINGUISTIC LABELS ON CONCURRENT DISCRIMINATION LEARNING BY AN ASL RESPONDING CHIMPANZEE; CHAPTER 15. TOWARD A COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF MIND; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-86627-2
Language:
English
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