Adaptive Behavior And Learning
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Adaptive Behavior and Learning
Author: J. E. R. Staddon
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2016-03-10
Summarizes the current state of both theoretical and experimental knowledge about learning in animals.
Adaptive Behavior and Learning
Adaptive behaviour is of two types only. Either an animal comes equipped by heredity with the ability to identify situations in which a built-in response is appropriate or it has mechanisms allowing it to adapt its behaviour in situations in which the correct response cannot be predicted. Adaptive behaviour of the second type comes about through natural selection, which weeds out individuals that identify situations inaccurately or respond inappropriately. Adaptive behaviour of the second type comes about through the selection of behavioural variants by the environment. This book is about the second type of adaptive behaviour, of which learning is the most highly developed form. Adaptive Behaviour and Learning constitutes a provocative theoretical integration of the psychological and biological approaches to adaptive behaviour. John Staddon's ideas will have a major impact on psychologists and zoologists' conceptions of the problem of learning. Highly readable, the book will serve as a useful text for courses in learning, animal behaviour and comparative psychology.
The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Disability
Author: Michael L. Wehmeyer
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2013-09-19
This handbook is the first comprehensive text on positive psychology and disability. Emphasizing paradigmatic changes in understanding disability, the text covers traditional disciplines in positive psychology; and applications of positive psychology to domains like education or work.