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Animal cognition and behavior /

Contributed chapters by psychologists and behavioral biologists provide a broad coverage of animal behavior, and governing brain processes. Topics covered include: foraging behavior and strategies, economics and psychology, memory of events and space, time perception, expectancies, food preferences...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Mellgren, Roger L., 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York : North-Holland Pub. Co. ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., �1983.
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 13.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Animal Cognition and Behavior; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1. BEHAVIORAL SUBSTITUTES AND COMPLEMENTS; CHAPTER 2. THE ANALYSIS OF NEED; CHAPTER 3. A "MIXED" MODEL OF TASTE PREFERENCE; CHAPTER 4. SPONTANEOUS BEHAVIOR: INFERENCES FROM NEUROSCIENCE; CHAPTER 5. SCHEDULE
  • INDUCED BEHAVIOR; CHAPTER 6. APPETITIVE STRUCTURE AND STRAIGHT ALLEY RUNNING; CHAPTER 7. MAZES, SKINNER BOXES AND FEEDING BEHAVIOR; CHAPTER 8. STUDYING FORAGING IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORABORY.