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Reflections on Adaptive Behavior : Essays in Honor of J. E. R. Staddon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (407 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262276023
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reflections on Adaptive BehaviorDDC classification:
  • 155.19/434
LOC classification:
  • BF335.R35 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Theoretical Behaviorist: John E. R. Staddon -- 2 Making Analogies Work: A Selectionist Model of Choice Behavior -- 3 Variation and Selection in Response Structures -- 4 Control of Response Variability: Call and Pecking Location in Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) -- 5 Rules of Thumb for Choice Behavior in Pigeons -- 6 Choice and Memory -- 7 The Spatial Memory of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana): Durability, Interference, and Response Biases -- 8 Interval Timing and Memory: Breaking the Clock -- 9 Learning Mechanisms in Multiple-Time-Scale Theory -- 10 Mechanisms of Adaptive Behavior: Beyond the Usual Suspects -- 11 Varieties of the Behaviorist Experience: Histories of John E. R. Staddon -- 12 Santayana Told Us, or The Prevalence of Radical Behaviorism -- 13 The End of Psychology: What Can We Expect at the Limits of Inquiry? -- 14 Reflections on I-O Psychology and Behaviorism -- 15 A New Paradigm for the Integration of the Social Sciences -- References -- Contributors -- Epilogue: Nancy Karen Innis, 1941-2004 -- Index.
Summary: J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Theoretical Behaviorist: John E. R. Staddon -- 2 Making Analogies Work: A Selectionist Model of Choice Behavior -- 3 Variation and Selection in Response Structures -- 4 Control of Response Variability: Call and Pecking Location in Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) -- 5 Rules of Thumb for Choice Behavior in Pigeons -- 6 Choice and Memory -- 7 The Spatial Memory of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana): Durability, Interference, and Response Biases -- 8 Interval Timing and Memory: Breaking the Clock -- 9 Learning Mechanisms in Multiple-Time-Scale Theory -- 10 Mechanisms of Adaptive Behavior: Beyond the Usual Suspects -- 11 Varieties of the Behaviorist Experience: Histories of John E. R. Staddon -- 12 Santayana Told Us, or The Prevalence of Radical Behaviorism -- 13 The End of Psychology: What Can We Expect at the Limits of Inquiry? -- 14 Reflections on I-O Psychology and Behaviorism -- 15 A New Paradigm for the Integration of the Social Sciences -- References -- Contributors -- Epilogue: Nancy Karen Innis, 1941-2004 -- Index.

J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.

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