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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: S. A. BarnettPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: AldineTransaction Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780202309774ISBN 10: 0202309770 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 15 April 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1: Statement of Themes; 2: Movement in the Living Space; 3: Feeding Behaviour; 4: Rat ‘Societies’; 5: Fixed Patterns and Heredity; 6: A Taxonomy of Learning; 7: Analysis of Learning; 8: The Analysis of ‘Drive’; 9: Brain and Behaviour; 10: The Study of BehaviourReviews"-The zoology student will learn from this book that there is more to the study of mammalian behaviour than is suggested by many an old fashioned and superficial account of the work of Pavlov, Thornike and Tinbergen. The psychology student whose grounding in biological sciences is weak, will learn that rat behaviour is primarily concerned with adaptation to a work in which Skinner boxes are few and far between.- --J. H. Greaves, Journal of Applied Ecology ""The zoology student will learn from this book that there is more to the study of mammalian behaviour than is suggested by many an old fashioned and superficial account of the work of Pavlov, Thornike and Tinbergen. The psychology student whose grounding in biological sciences is weak, will learn that rat behaviour is primarily concerned with adaptation to a work in which Skinner boxes are few and far between."" --J. H. Greaves, Journal of Applied Ecology ""The zoology student will learn from this book that there is more to the study of mammalian behaviour than is suggested by many an old fashioned and superficial account of the work of Pavlov, Thornike and Tinbergen. The psychology student whose grounding in biological sciences is weak, will learn that rat behaviour is primarily concerned with adaptation to a work in which Skinner boxes are few and far between."" --J. H. Greaves, Journal of Applied Ecology" <p> The zoology student will learn from this book that there is more to the study of mammalian behaviour than is suggested by many an old fashioned and superficial account of the work of Pavlov, Thornike and Tinbergen. The psychology student whose grounding in biological sciences is weak, will learn that rat behaviour is primarily concerned with adaptation to a work in which Skinner boxes are few and far between. <p> --J. H. Greaves, Journal of Applied Ecology The zoology student will learn from this book that there is more to the study of mammalian behaviour than is suggested by many an old fashioned and superficial account of the work of Pavlov, Thornike and Tinbergen. The psychology student whose grounding in biological sciences is weak, will learn that rat behaviour is primarily concerned with adaptation to a work in which Skinner boxes are few and far between. --J. H. Greaves, Journal of Applied Ecology Author InformationS. A. Barnett (1915-2003) was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he became Christopher Welch Scholar after taking a First in Zoology. He was a senior lecturer, and eventually was appointed chair at the Glasgow University Zoology Department in 1971. He has studied behavior, hybrid vigor and effects of breeding at a low temperature in rats and mice and wrote over 150 papers and nine books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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