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Title Social learning : psychological and biological perspectives / edited by Thomas R. Zentall, Bennett G. Galef, Jr
Published Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 357 pages) : illustrations
Series Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series
Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; PART I SOCIAL LEARNING: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES; 1 IMITATION IN ANIMALS: HISTORY, DEFINITION, AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA FROM THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY; 2 AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL OF SOCIAL LEARNING: THE EFFECTS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATON; PART II SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON AVOIDANCE LEARNING; 3 SOCIAL LEARNING AND THE ACQUISITION OF SNAKE FEAR IN MONKEYS; 4 CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF ENEMY RECOGNITION BY BIRDS
5 direct and observational learning by red-winged blackbirds (agelaius phoeniceus): the importance of complex visual stimulipart iii social influences on foraging and feeding; 6 communication of information concerning distant diets in a social, central-place foraging species: rattus norvegicus; 7 mechanisms, ecology, and population diffusion of socially-learned, food-finding behavior in feral pigeons; 8 social learning about food by humans; part iv social learning of arbitrary responses; 9 experimentally manipulated imitative behavior in rats and pigeons
10 learning in the rat of a choice response by observation of s-s contingencies11 learned imitation by pigeons; 12 culture and genetics in the house mouse; part v social influences on communication; 13 the role of social factors in white-crowned sparrow song development; 14 the importance of social interaction and observation in the acquisition of communicatve competence: possible parallels between avian and human learning; 15 infants imitation of novel and familiar behaviors; 16 the human infant as homo imitans -- author index; subject index
Summary First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Analysis Learning
Learning in animals
Psychology, Social
Social Behavior in infancy & childhood
Social behavior in animals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Animal 2017 Bildband gnd
Subject Social behavior in animals.
Learning in animals.
Learning.
Social psychology.
Learning
Psychology, Social
Social Behavior
social psychology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
Social psychology
Learning
Learning in animals
Social behavior in animals
Soziales Lernen
Aufsatzsammlung
Verhaltensforschung
Vergleichende Psychologie
Tiere
Comportamento social animal.
Aprendizagem.
Comportement social des animaux.
Apprentissage chez les animaux.
Form Electronic book
Author Zentall, Thomas R
Galef, Bennett G
ISBN 9781317766872
1317766873
9781317766889
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9781317766865
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