John M. Pearce (UK University of Cardiff)

Animal Learning and Cognition

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an up to date review of the principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new edition has been expanded to take account of the many exciting developments that have occurred in the last ten years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 188mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 922g
• ISBN-13: 9781841696560
• ISBN-10: 1841696560
• Artikelnr.: 24716199

Autorenporträt

John Pearce gained a B.Sc in Psychology from the University of Leeds, and a D. Phil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex. After conducting research at the Universities of York and Cambridge he moved to a lectureship in the Department of Psychology at Cardiff University in 1980, where he is now Professor of Psychology. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. The Study of Animal Intelligence. The Distribution of
Intelligence. Defining Animal Intelligence. Why Study Animal Intelligence?
Methods for Studying Animal Intelligence. Historical Background. 2.
Associative Learning Conditioning Techniques. The Nature of Associative
Learning. Stimulus-stimulus Learning. The Nature of us Representations. The
Conditioned Response. Concluding Comment: The Reflexive Nature of the
Conditioned Response. 3. The Conditions for Learning: Surprise and
Attention. Part 1: Surprise and Conditioning. Conditioning with a Single
CS. Conditioning with a Compound CS. Evaluation of the Rescorla-Wagner
Model. Part 2: Attention and Conditioning Wagner's Theory. Stimulus
Significance. The Pearce-Hall Theory. Concluding Comments. 4. Instrumental
Conditioning. The Nature of Instrumental Learning. The Conditions of
Learning. The Performance of Instrumental Behavior. The Law of Effect and
Problem Solving. 5. Extinction. Extinction as Generalization Decrement. The
Conditions for Extinction. Associative Changes During Extinction. Are
Trials Important for Pavlovian Extinction? 6. Discrimination Learning.
Theories of Discrimination Learning. Connectionist Models of Discrimination
Learning. Metacognition and Discrimination Learning. 7. Category Formation.
Examples of Categorization. Theories of Categorization. Abstract Categories
Relationships as Categories. The Representation of Knowledge. 8. Short-term
Retention. Methods of Study. Forgetting. Theoretical Interpretation. Serial
Position Effects. Metamemory. 9. Long-term Retention. Capacity. Durability.
Theoretical Interpretation. Episodic Memory. 10. Time, Number, and Serial
Order. Time. Number. Serial order. Transitive Inference. Concluding
Comments. 11. Navigation. Part 1: Short-distance Travel. Methods of
Navigation. Part 2: Long-distance Travel. Navigational Cues. Homing.
Migration. Concluding Comments. 12. Social Learning. Diet Selection and
Foraging. Choosing a Mate. Fear of Predators. Copying Behavior: Mimicry.
Copying Behavior: Imitation. Theory of Mind. Self-recognition. Concluding
Comments. 13. Animal Communication and Language. Animal Communication.
Communication and Language. Can an Ape Create a Sentence? Language Training
with Other Species. The Requirements for Learning a Language. 14. The
Distribution of Intelligence. Intelligence and Brain Size. The Null
Hypothesis. Intelligence and Evolution. References.