Pavlov's Legacy: How and What Animals Learn - Hardcover

Boakes, Robert A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 131651207X ISBN 13: 9781316512074

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Pavlov claimed that his experiments with dogs would transform the study of psychology and the treatment of mental illness. His work inspired researchers to study how animals learn to traverse mazes, avoid shocks, or press levers to obtain food, and also to compare the learning and cognitive abilities of different species, ranging from apes and dolphins to rats and pigeons. This book describes five decades of research into animal learning and comparative psychology, examining Pavlov's influence on this research and discoveries made by scientists who accepted many of his claims, while others looked for evidence to reject them. Drawing together diverse strands of research and providing historical and biographical information to bring the details to life, this is an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers in behavioural neuroscience, as well as for anyone in adjacent fields with an interest in learning theory.

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Robert A. Boakes is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney. He has held positions at universities in the UK and USA, focussing his research efforts on the study of learning, mainly in animals. He has published numerous articles on animal learning and co-authored a Cambridge handbook on animal training, Carrots and Sticks (2007), following his highly regarded previous Cambridge book, From Darwin to Behaviourism (1984).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 131651207X
• ISBN 13: 9781316512074
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 375
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