Animal Learning and Cognition : An Introduction

John Pearce

ISBN 10: 1841696560 / ISBN 13: 9781841696560

Verlag: KNV Besorgung, 2008

Beschreibung

Neu - Offers a review of the principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This title presents a historical survey of the methods that are used to study animal intelligence, and follows by summarizing the contribution made by learning processes to intelligent behavior.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers INF1000105290

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Animal Learning and Cognition : An Introduction
• Verlag: KNV Besorgung
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1841696560
• ISBN-13: 9781841696560
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 3. Auflage
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction 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 over the last ten years.

The book opens with a historical survey of the methods that have been used to study animal intelligence, and follows by summarizing the contribution made by learning processes to intelligent behavior. Topics include Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning, discrimination learning, and categorization. The remainder of the book focuses on animal cognition and covers such topics as memory, navigation, social learning, language and communication, and knowledge representation. Expanded areas include extinction (to which an entire chapter is now devoted), navigation in insects, episodic memory in birds, imitation in birds and primates, and the debate about whether primates are aware of mental states in themselves and others. Issues raised throughout the book are reviewed in a concluding chapter that examines how intelligence is distributed throughout the animal kingdom.

The broad spectrum of topics covered in this book ensures that it will be of interest to students of psychology, biology, zoology, and neuroscience. Since very little background knowledge is required, the book will be of equal value to anyone simply interested in either animal intelligence, or the animal origins of human intelligence.

This textbook is accompanied by online instructor resources which are free of charge to departments who adopt this book as their text. They include chapter-by-chapter lecture slides, an interactive chapter-by-chapter multiple-choice question test bank, and multiple-choice questions in paper and pen format.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.