| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 529 pages) : illustrations |
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Prentice Hall psychology series |
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Prentice-Hall psychology series.
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| Contents |
Why study animal psychology? -- The historical background of comparative psychology -- Maturation and "instinctive" functions -- Motivation: incentives and drives -- The effect of drugs and internal secretions on animal behavior -- The functions of the receptors -- Discrimination -- The neurology of learning -- The conditioned reflex -- Learning -- Complex learning processes -- Theories of learning -- Individual differences -- Social psychology of animals -- Social psychology of animals -- "Gifted" animals |
| Summary |
"The increasing number of courses offered in Comparative Psychology gives some indication of the importance of the subject. Realizing the need for a satisfactory textbook in this field, a number of men who had been working in Animal Psychology convened at the Cornell meeting of the American Psychological Association and planned an introductory textbook. Each of them prepared independently a suggestive outline for the book as a whole. After studying this outline, a committee selected what appeared to be the most important topics and allocated the assignments among the men according to their specializations. Thereafter each contributor developed his topic in his own way and assumed full responsibility for content, for interpretation of data, and for placement of emphasis. The book is thoroughly documented, so that anyone wishing to go back to the original sources will have no difficulty in so doing. The editor wishes to commend the contributors for their systematic team work in attempting to reduce or eliminate needless repetition of closely related subject matter. There was no effort whatever to curb or to eliminate diverse opinions on controversial subjects; such opinions are omnipresent in rapidly changing subjects, and no student is any the worse for encountering them in his reading at the very outset. Through cooperative efforts, singularly free from the secretive reserve sometimes found among specialists, a book more representative of Comparative Psychology as it is today has been obtained than could reasonably be expected from the hand of a single contributor in this varied and ever-expanding field. Breadth of view and wealth of subject matter more than compensate for a certain lack of unification inevitably present in a work of this kind"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Notes |
On cover: Edited by F.A. Moss |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychology, Comparative.
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Psychology, Comparative
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Psychology, Comparative
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moss, Fred A. (Fred August), 1893-1966.
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Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949.
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| LC no. |
34024474 |
| ISBN |
9781136873195 |
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1136873198 |
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