| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Reader's guide to Section 1: Issues and Essays: Points to View in a Comparative Approach; 1. Overcoming Our Resistance to Animal Research: Man in Comparative Perspective; Man as an Animal; Evolution; Problem of Dualism; Sources of Resistance; Learning in Evolutionary Perspective; A Comparative Approach to Language; Man Studying Man; 2. Comparison of Human Behaviors; Comparing Human Behaviors; Human Behaviors; Cultural Evolution; Human Nature; Summary; 3. The Comparative Approach in Human Ethology |
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The Study of AnalogiesThe Study of Homologies; Conclusion; 4. Successful Comparative Psychology: Four Case Histories; Case 1: Child Psychology and Development-Infantile Attachment; Case 2: Child Psychology and Development-Dominance Relations Among Peers; Case 3: Experimental/Clinical Psychology-Learned Aversions; Case 4: Experimental/Clinical Psychology-Learned Helplessness; Closing Thoughts; Reader's guide to Section 2: Theoretical Concerns: Opportunities and Constraints in a Comparative Approach; 5. Mentalism and Behaviorism in Comparative Psychology; Introduction; Mentalism and Homunculi |
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Mentalism and FalsifiabilityHow Behaviorists Must Generalize Over Stimulus Conditions; The Concept of Belief and the Concept of Concept; The Form of Representations; Consciousness; Concluding Remarks; 6. The Ideas of Change, Progress, and Continuity in the Comparative Psychology of Learning; On Change, Progress, and Continuity; Metaphors of Change and the Origin of Comparative Psychology; The Tempo of Mental Evolution; The Direction of Mental Evolution; Scientists' Assumptions and Theories of Learning |
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7. Hybrid Models: Modifications in Models of Social Behavior That Are Borrowed Across Species and Up Evolutionary GradesThe Social Structural Model in Animal Behavior; Models in Human Behavior; Hybrid Models as Adaptations; Conclusion; 8. On the Process and Product of Cross-Species Generalization; Introduction; Classical Biological Approaches to Cross-Species Generalizations; Ultimate and Proximate Factors; Degrees of Generalization; Levels of Analysis and Ontogenic Parallels; Cross-Species Generalities and Phylogenetic Similarities |
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Practical Applications of Knowledge Concerning Cross-Species GeneralizationsSummary and Conclusions; Reader's guide to Section 3: Behavior and Biology: Genetic Considerations in a Comparative Approach; 9. Disentangling Genetic and Cultural Influences on Human Behavior: Problems and Prospects; Genetic Similarities and Morphological Differences Between Humans and Chimpanzees; Darwinian Principles and the Study of Human Social Behavior; Genetic Analysis of Complex Human Traits; Conclusion; 10. Homology, Genetics, and Behavior: Homology From a Behavior-Genetic Perspective |
| Summary |
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychology, Comparative.
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Animal behavior.
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Behavior, Animal
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Psychology, Comparative
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Animal behavior
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Psychology, Comparative
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Gedrag.
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Vergelijkende psychologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rajecki, D. W., 1939-
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| ISBN |
9781317769286 |
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1317769287 |
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