Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 605 g
Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 605 g
ISBN: 978-3-211-99936-3
Verlag: Springer-Verlag KG
Zielgruppe
Research
Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Introductory History.- One Methodology.- I Thinking in Biological Terms.- II The Methodology of Biology and Particularly of Ethology.- III The Fallacies of Non-System-Oriented Methods.- IV The Comparative Method.- Two Genetically Programmed Behavior.- I The Centrally Coordinated Movement or Fixed Motor Pattern.- II Afferent Processes.- III The Problem of the “Stimulus”.- IV The Behavior Mechanisms Already Described Built into Complex Systems.- V How Unitary Is “An Instinct”?.- VI Mechanisms Exploiting Instant Information.- VII Multiple Motivation in Behavior.- Three Adaptive Modification of Behavior.- I Modification.- II Learning Without Association.- III Learning Through Association Without Feedback Reporting Success.- IV Learning Effected by the Consequences of Behavior.- V Motor Learning, Voluntary Movement, and Insight.- VI Exploratory Behavior or Curiosity.- Appendix Concerning Homo sapiens.- 1. Anthropologists’ Allegations.- 2. On Analogies.- 3. The Difference of Homo sapiens.- 4. Conceptual Thought and Syntactic Language.- 5. Consequences.- 6. Cultural Ethology.- References.