Overview

Behavior studies now span a variety of sub-disciplines, including behavioral ecology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and evolutionary developmental biology. While the fields' rapid growth has led to startling new insights into animal behavior, it has brought increasingly fragmented approaches to the subject. Integrating ideas and findings from a range of disciplines, this book provides a common framework for understanding diverse issues in behavior studies. The framework is derived from classical ethology, incorporating concepts and data from research in experimental psychology, neurophysiology and evolutionary biology. Hogan outlines the origin and development of major ideas and issues in the field, drawing on examples throughout to highlight connections across sub-disciplines. Demonstrating how results in one area can directly inform work in others, the book ultimately proposes concepts to facilitate new discussions that will open the way for improved dialog between researchers across behavior studies.

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Author:   Jerry A. Hogan (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781316642191

ISBN 10:   1316642194
Pages:   383
Publication Date:   14 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The framework; 2. Structure of behavior: actions, perceptions, representations, behavior systems; 3. Motivation: immediate causes of behavior; 4. Motivational consequences of behavior: emotion, homeostasis, expectancies, orientation, rhythms; 5. Ontogeny of structure: development of behavior systems; 6. Ontogeny of structure: some principles of development; 7. Causes and consequences of development: reinforcement, learning, memory; 8. Phylogeny of structure: evolution of behavior; 9. Phylogenetic consequences: survival value (current fitness); 10. Phylogenetic consequences: adaptations and historical origins; Afterword; References; Name index; Subject index.

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'As a whole, Hogan's book provides an up to date overview of the diversity of ethology and acceleration of elites basic principles and mechanisms.' Pertti Koskimies, Luonnon Tutkija ('Nature Researcher')

Author Information

Jerry A. Hogan is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. A researcher of animal behavior for more than fifty years, his work focuses on understanding the structure, motivation and development of behavior, with tropical fish and jungle fowl as primary models. A past president of the International Society for Comparative Psychology (2002–2006), Hogan is also a co-author of Causal Mechanisms of Behavioural Development (Cambridge, 1994) and a leading contributor to Tinbergen's Legacy: Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology (Cambridge, 2009).

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