Jerry A. Hogan

The Study of Behavior

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique framework for understanding diverse issues across behavior studies, facilitating collaboration between sub-disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781107191976
• ISBN-10: 1107191971
• Artikelnr.: 48387396

Autorenporträt

Jerry A. Hogan is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. A researcher of animal behavior for more than fifty years, his work focuses on understanding the structure, motivation and development of behavior, with tropical fish and jungle fowl as primary models. A past president of the International Society for Comparative Psychology (2002¿2006), Hogan is also a co-author of Causal Mechanisms of Behavioural Development (Cambridge, 1994) and a leading contributor to Tinbergen's Legacy: Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology (Cambridge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The framework
2. Structure of behavior: actions, perceptions, representations, behavior systems
3. Motivation: immediate causes of behavior
4. Motivational consequences of behavior: emotion, homeostasis, expectancies, orientation, rhythms
5. Ontogeny of structure: development of behavior systems
6. Ontogeny of structure: some principles of development
7. Causes and consequences of development: reinforcement, learning, memory
8. Phylogeny of structure: evolution of behavior
9. Phylogenetic consequences: survival value (current fitness)
10. Phylogenetic consequences: adaptations and historical origins
Afterword
References
Name index
Subject index.