Reflections on adaptive behavior : essays in honor of J.E.R. Staddon / edited by Nancy K. Innis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staddon, J. E. R.

Innis, Nancy K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adaptability (Psychology).

Adjustment (Psychology).

Behaviorism (Psychology).

Adaptation, Psychological.

Medical Subjects:

Adaptation, Psychological.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]

Contents:

1 Theoretical Behaviorist: John E. R. Staddon / Nancy K. Innis 1

I Behavioral Variability and Choice 21

2 Making Analogies Work: A Selectionist Model of Choice Behavior / Armando Machado, Richard Keen, Eric Macaux 23

3 Variation and Selection in Response Structures / Alliston K. Reid, Rebecca Dixon, Stephen Gray 51

4 Control of Response Variability: Call and Pecking Location in Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) / Kazuchika Manabe 87

5 Rules of Thumb for Choice Behavior in Pigeons / J. M. Cleaveland 101

II Memory, Time, and Models 123

6 Choice and Memory / Daniel T. Cerutti 125

7 The Spatial Memory of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana): Durability, Interference, and Response Biases / Robert H. I. Dale 143

8 Interval Timing and Memory: Breaking the Clock / Jennifer J. Higa 171

9 Learning Mechanisms in Multiple-Time-Scale Theory / Mircea I. Chelaru, Mandar S. Jog 193

10 Mechanisms of Adaptive Behavior: Beyond the Usual Suspects / Valentin Dragoi 215

III Behaviorism 235

11 Varieties of the Behaviorist Experience: Histories of John E. R. Staddon / Clive D. L. Wynne 237

12 Santayana Told Us, or The Prevalence of Radical Behaviorism / John C. Malone, Susan R. Perry 247

13 The End of Psychology: What Can We Expect at the Limits of Inquiry? / John M. Horner 269

14 Reflections on I-O Psychology and Behaviorism / John E. Kello 291

IV Behaviorism and the Social Sciences 313

15 A New Paradigm for the Integration of the Social Sciences / Giulio Bolacchi 315

Epilogue: Nancy Karen Innis, 1941-2004 389.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-386) and index.

ISBN:

9780262090445

0262090449

9780262590266

0262590263

OCLC:

173509389