The animal mind : a text-book of comparative psychology / Margaret Floy Washburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Washburn, Margaret Floy, 1871-1939, author.

Series:

Animal behavior series.

Animal behavior series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal intelligence.

Psychology, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

animal mind

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Company, 1926.

Summary:

Again the accumulation of material during a nine-year period has made necessary the rewriting of a large portion of this book. Particularly noteworthy in the last five years have been the German contributions, especially those thorough experimental studies of sensory discrimination published in the new Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Physiologie. The work of the Amsterdam laboratory of physiology is also a welcome addition to our resources. In the present edition of "The Animal Mind," the chapters dealing with sensory discriminations and with the tropism, besides incorporating the new material, have been thoroughly reorganized so as to give, it is hoped, a much clearer survey of the complex mass of data they present, and thus to make them more readable. The treatment of perception has been considerably changed, and takes account of the work of the configurationists in the field of animal psychology. The treatment of learning enters more fully into theoretical considerations than was the case in the earlier editions, and presents a new theory of the nature of the drive. A new final chapter summarizes the factors which influence the nature of the animal mind at various levels of development.

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