| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 423 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Theoretical Behaviorism : aim and methods -- 2. Adaptive function, I : the allocation of behavior -- 3. Adaptive function, II : behavioral economics -- 4. Trial and error -- 5. Reflexes -- 6. Habituation and memory dynamics -- 7. Motivation, I : feeding dynamics and homeostasis -- 8. Motivation, II : a model for feeding dynamics -- 9. Motivation, III : incentive and schedule effects -- 10. Assignment of credit -- 11. Stimulus control -- 12. Spatial search -- 13. Times, I : pacemaker-accumulator models -- 14. Time, II : multiple-time-scale theory -- 15. Times, III : MTS and time estimation -- 16. Afterword |
| Summary |
In this book J.E.R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of parsimonious real-time models for behavior. The models are neither physiological nor cognitive: they are behavioristic. Staddon shows how simple dynamic models can explain a surprising variety of animal and human behavior, ranging from simple orientation, reflexes, and habituation through feeding regulation, operant conditioning, spatial navigation, stimulus generalization, and interval timing |
| Analysis |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-411) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Behaviorism (Psychology)
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Human behavior.
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Animal behavior.
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Learning.
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Behavior
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Adaptation, Psychological
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Behavior, Animal
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Learning
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Models, Psychological
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Psychology, Comparative
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Behaviorism
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human behavior.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Behaviorism.
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Learning
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Human behavior
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Animal behavior
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Behaviorism (Psychology)
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Psychology, Comparative
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262284189 |
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0262284189 |
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026229303X |
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9780262293037 |
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1423728726 |
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9781423728726 |
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