"Laws of Human Behavior demonstrates that areas of the behavioral sciences have achieved a degree of rigor in execution & interpretation that approaches the reliability of the physical sciences"--
"Laws of Human Behavior demonstrates that areas of the behavioral sciences have achieved a degree of rigor in execution & interpretation that approaches the reliability of the physical sciences"--
Donald Pfaff is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University. His books include Hormonal Factors in Brain Function (MIT Press), Drive (MIT Press), and The Altruistic Brain. Sandra Sherman is a former Senior Attorney for the US government and a retired Professor of English. She is a coauthor of several books in neuroscience.
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Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Sensation, Perception 1. Psychophysics 2. Stimulus Generalization 3. Signal Detection is a Function of Stimulus and Criterion for Positive Responses 4. Perception is Selective Part II: Movement 5. Motor Responsiveness 6. Principle of Least Effort 7. Habituation Part III: Conditioning 8. Pavlovian (“Classical”) Conditioning 9. Operant (Instrumental) Conditioning 10. Delay of Reinforcement Gradient Part IV: Cognition 11. Information Load Determines Retention of that Information 12. We Forget 13. Slow Deliberative Decision Making Uses Different Cortical Mechanisms Compared to Fast Perceptual Decision Making 14. We Reduce Cognitive Dissonance Part V: Changes of State 15. Hormones Change Behavioral States 16. Human Behavior is Regulated by a Circadian Rhythm 17. Optimum Level of Arousal (Yerkes-Dodson Law) Part VI: Social Behaviors 18. Humans Seek Social Contact 19. In Groups, Humans Form Hierarchies 20. Humans Behave Altruistically Conclusion and Perspective Further Reading
Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Sensation, Perception 1. Psychophysics 2. Stimulus Generalization 3. Signal Detection is a Function of Stimulus and Criterion for Positive Responses 4. Perception is Selective Part II: Movement 5. Motor Responsiveness 6. Principle of Least Effort 7. Habituation Part III: Conditioning 8. Pavlovian (“Classical”) Conditioning 9. Operant (Instrumental) Conditioning 10. Delay of Reinforcement Gradient Part IV: Cognition 11. Information Load Determines Retention of that Information 12. We Forget 13. Slow Deliberative Decision Making Uses Different Cortical Mechanisms Compared to Fast Perceptual Decision Making 14. We Reduce Cognitive Dissonance Part V: Changes of State 15. Hormones Change Behavioral States 16. Human Behavior is Regulated by a Circadian Rhythm 17. Optimum Level of Arousal (Yerkes-Dodson Law) Part VI: Social Behaviors 18. Humans Seek Social Contact 19. In Groups, Humans Form Hierarchies 20. Humans Behave Altruistically Conclusion and Perspective Further Reading
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