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).

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 394 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.John Staddon has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. He did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his doctoral work with B. F. Skinner), but his work can be characterized as theoretical behaviorism. Staddon, now at Duke University, believes that experimental analysis is never enough to make sense of behavior and that "theoretical imagination" is also required. Staddon's theoretical imagination has distinguished his work over the years and has influenced the field. Staddon is not afraid to deviate from the norm: when psychologists were maintaining their distance from behavioral psychology, Staddon was promoting optimality theories. Optimality theories in psychology are now commonplace. In this volume, Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss topics that have been important in his work: behavioral ability and choice, memory, time and models (the subject of his work at Harvard), and behaviorism. They also reflect on Staddon's influence on their own work and the evolution of their thinking on these topics. ContributorsGiulio Bolacchi, Daniel T. Cerutti, Mircea Ioan Chelaru, J. Mark Cleaveland, Robert H. I. Dale, Rebecca A. Dixon, Valentin Dragoi, Stephen Gray, Jennifer J. Higa, John M. Horner, Nancy K. Innis, Mandar S. Jog, Richard Keen, John E. Kello, Eric Macaux, Armando Machado, John C. Malone, Jr., Kazuchika Manabe, Susan R. Perry, Alliston K. Reid

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:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262276023

026227602X

9781435649026

1435649028

OCLC:

233534766

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