Learning, motivation, and cognition : the functional behaviorism of Robert C. Bolles / edited by Mark E. Bouton, Michael S. Fanselow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouton, Mark E.

Fanselow, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Motivation (Psychology).

Cognition.

Bolles, Robert C.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 1997.

Summary:

The past half-century has seen a dramatic shift in the biobehavioral study of learning and motivation, from an emphasis on mechanistic ideas about drive and reinforcement to a focus on ethology and on cognitive theories. At the forefront of this new shift was Robert C. Bolles, whose classic work Theory of Motivation inspired an enormous and enduring interest in radical empiricism and adaptive function. Bolles was among the first to bring biological concepts to our understanding of behavior and function.

This book traces the development of Bolles' work, and examines the enormous impact that his thinking has had on current research. Bringing together the insights and reminiscences of his colleagues and students, it reveals the ways in which Bolles' work has shaped a whole new generation of research.

Contents:

About This Book: The Life and Influence of Robert C. Bolles / Michael S. Fanselow, Mark E. Bouton

Part I Evolution, Phylogeny, and Ontogeny

1. Evolved Behavioral Mechanisms / Lewis Petrinovich

2. Behavioral Systems and the Demise of Equipotentiality: Historical Antecedents and Evidence From Sexual Conditioning / Michael Domjan

3. Developmental Dissociation of the Components of Conditioned Fear / Pamela S. Hunt, Byron A. Campbell

4. How Typical and Atypical Contexts Influence Infant Behavior / Alexis C. Collier

Part II The Motivation of Behavior

5. Regulation of Food Intake: Interactions Between Learning and Physiology / Randy J. Seeley, Douglas S. Ramsay, Stephen C. Woods

6. Motivation as a Function of Animal Versus Experimenter Control / George Collier, Deanne Johnson

7. Feeding Dynamics: Why Rats Eat in Meals and What This Means for Foraging and Feeding Regulation / John E. R. Staddon, B. Silvano Zanutto

8. Wheels, Clocks, and Anorexia in the Rat / Robert A. Boakes

9. The Behaviors of Sleep and Sleepiness: An Overview / Robert D. Ogilvie

Part III Learned Food Preferences and Aversions

10. Sexual Dimorphisms in Conditioned Taste Aversions: Mechanism and Function / Kathleen C. Chambers, David Yuan, Elizabeth A. Brownson, Yuan Wang

11. Drug Discrimination Learning: Assessment of Opioid Receptor Pharmacology / Anthony L. Riley

12. The Nature and Strength of Caloric Conditioning / Paul M. Fedrochak

13. The Consummatory Rat: The Psychological Hedonism of Robert C. Bolles / Ronald Mehiel

14. Stimulus, Environmental, and Pharmacological Control of Defensive Behaviors / D. Caroline Blanchard

15. Performance Rules for Problem-Specific Defense Reactions / Ronald A. Sigmundi

16. Species-Specific Defense Reactions: Retrospect and Prospect / Michael S. Fanselow

Part V Cognition in Animal Learning

17. Bolleis Psychological Syllogism / Anthony Dickinson

18. The Neurobiology of Memory for Aversive Emotional Events / Larry Cahill, Benno Roozendaal, James L. McGaugh

19. Signals for Whether Versus When an Event Will Occur / Mark E. Bouton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1557984360

OCLC:

37157772