| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 451 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
About this book : the life and influence of Robert C. Bolles / Michael S. Fanselow and Mark E. Bouton -- Part I. Evolution, phylogeny, and ontogeny -- Evolved behavioral mechanisms / Lewis Petrinovich -- Behavior systems and the demise of equipotentiality : historical antecedents and evidence from sexual conditioning / Michael Domjan -- Developmental dissociation of the components of conditioned fear / Pamela S. Hunt and Byron A. Campbell -- How typical and atypical contexts influence infant behavior / Alexis C. Collier -- Part II. The motivation of behavior -- Regulation of food intake : interactions between learning and physiology / Randy J. Seeley, Douglas S. Ramsay, Stephen C. Woods -- Motivation as a function of animal versus experimenter control / George Collier and Deanne Johnson -- Feeding dynamics : why rats eat in meals and what this means for foraging and feeding regulation / John E.R. Staddon and B. Silvano Zanutto -- Wheels, clocks, and anorexia in the rat / Robert A. Boakes -- The behaviors of sleep and sleepiness : an overview / Robert D. Ogilvie -- Part III. Learned food preferences and aversions -- Sexual dimorphisms in conditioned taste aversions : mechanism and function / Kathleen C. Chambers ... [et al.] -- Drug discrimination learning : assessment of opioid receptor pharmacology / Anthony L. Riley -- The nature and strength of caloric conditioning / Paul M. Fedorchak -- The consummatory rat : the psychological hedonism of Robert C. Bolles / Ronald Mehiel -- Part IV. Defensive behavior -- Stimulus, environmental, and pharmacological control of defensive behaviors / D. Caroline Blanchard -- Performance rules for problem-specific defense reactions / Ronald A. Sigmundi -- Species-specific defense reactions : retrospect and prospect / Michael S. Fanselow -- Part V. Cognition in animal learning -- Bolles's psychological syllogism / Anthony Dickinson -- The neurobiology of memory for aversive emotional events / Larry Cahill, Benno Roozendaal, James L. McGaugh -- Signals for whether versus when an event will occur / Mark E. Bouton. |
| Summary |
The past half-century has seen a dramatic shift in the biobehavioral study of learning and motivation. Fifty years ago, theory was dominated by mechanistic ideas about drive, reinforcement, and temporal contiguity. Now ethological and cognitive themes have become part of the lexicon. Robert C. Bolles was at the forefront of this emerging school of thought, advocating a new blend of psychology and ethology. The volume reflects his influential scholarship and shares the same themes that guided his thinking: behavior and function. /// In this volume, Bolles's former students, contemporaries, and colleagues continue his legacy in writing upon these themes. The volume beings with a section on evolution, ontogeny, and phylogeny that emphasizes the functional aspects of behavior. The 2nd section describes the interaction of learning with regulatory physiology. Learned food preferences and aversions are the subject of the 3rd section. Next, the book pays tribute to Bolles's work on the problems of aversively motivated behavior, specifically defensive behavior. The final section of the book addresses cognitive processes in animals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Form |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Ovid PsycBooks. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Bolles, Robert C.
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Learning, Psychology of.
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Motivation (Psychology)
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Cognition.
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Learning.
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Motivation.
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Cognition.
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Bouton, Mark E.
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Fanselow, Michael S.
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Available from some providers with title: PsycBOOKS |
| Other Form: |
Original 1557984360 (DLC) 97025299 |
| ISBN |
1557984360 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781557984364 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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