| ISBN13: | 9781138788145 |
| ISBN10: | 1138788147 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 558 pages |
| Size: | 254x178 mm |
| Weight: | 453 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 208 Illustrations, black & white; 64 Halftones, black & white; 144 Line drawings, black & white; 76 Tables, black & white |
| 189 |
Comparative Psychology
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This revised third edition provides an up to date, comprehensive overview of the field of comparative psychology, integrating both evolutionary and developmental studies of brain and behavior. This book provides a unique combination of areas normally covered independently to satisfy the requirements of comparative psychology courses.
This revised third edition provides an up to date, comprehensive overview of the field of comparative psychology, integrating both evolutionary and developmental studies of brain and behavior. This book provides a unique combination of areas normally covered independently to satisfy the requirements of comparative psychology courses.
Papini ensures thorough coverage of topics like the fundamentals of neural function, the cognitive and associative capacities of animals, the development of the central nervous system and behavior, and the fossil record of animals including human ancestors. This text includes many examples drawn from the study of human behavior, highlighting general and basic principles that apply broadly to the animal kingdom. New topics introduced in this edition include genetics, epigenetics, neurobiological, and cognitive advances made in recent years into this evolutionary-developmental framework.
An essential textbook for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative psychology, animal behavior, and evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience and behavioral biology.
1. Biological Evolution
1.1 Evidence for Evolution
1.2 Logic of Natural Selection
1.3 Origin and Preservation of Genetic Variability
1.4 Natural Selection
1.5 Glossary
1.6 References
2. Origin and Evolution of Animals
2.1 Diversity of Life
2.2 Geological Background
2.3 Origin and Evolution of Animals
2.4 Speciation
2.5 Grades and Clades
2.6 Glossary
2.7 References
3. Evo-devo, Brain, and Behavior
3.1 Definitions
3.2 Early Development
3.3 Development of the Vertebrate Nervous System
3.4 Development and evolution
3.5 Terminology
3.6 Behavior
3.7 Glossary
3.8 References
4. Simple Nervous Systems and Behavior
4.1 Invertebrate Phyla
4.2 Behavior and Simple Neural Networks
4.3 Behavioral and Neural Plasticity in Nonassociative Learning
4.4 Evolution of Learning Mechanisms in Mollusks
4.5 Glossary
4.6 References
5. Evolution of the Vertebrate Brain and Behavior
5.1 Key Innovations of Vertebrates
5.2 Comparative Neurology
5.3 Telencephalon
5.4 Brain Size
5.5 Glossary
5.6 References
Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Learning and Cognition
6.1 Definitions
6.2 Forms of Conditioning
6.3 Classical Conditioning
6.4 Instrumental Conditioning
6.5 Situational Generality of Associative Learning
6.6 Brain Mechanisms of Learning and Cognition: An Overview
6.7 Glossary
6.8 References
7. Comparative Analysis of Learning and Cognition
7.1 Comparative Methodology
7.2 Learning and Cognition in Invertebrates
7.3 Learning and Cognition as Adaptations
7.4 Learning, Cognition, and Phylogenetic History
7.5 Glossary
7.6 References
8. Higher Cognitive Processes
8.1 From Associative Learning to Cognition
8.2 From Concepts to Social Cognition
8.3 Mental Continuity and Discontinuity
8.4 Glossary
8.5 References
9. Early Learning and Behavior
9.1 Ontogenetic Transitions
9.2 Prenatal and Prehatching Behavior
9.3 Infant Behavior
9.4 Infant Learning
9.5 Development of Complex Behavior
9.6 Glossary
9.7 References
10. Early Social Learning and Behavior
10.1 From Individual to Social Behavior
10.2 Imprinting
10.3 Reproductive and Social Behavior
10.4 Development of Vocal Behavior
10.5 Glossary
10.6 References
11. Reproductive and Social Behavior
11.1 Reproductive Biology and Social Behavior
11.2 Mechanisms Underlying Social Behavior
11.3 Mating Systems
11.4 Patterns of Reproductive Behavior
11.5 Infant Care
11.6 Complex Animal Societies
11.7 Glossary
11.8 References
12. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution of Primates
12.1 What is a Primate?
12.2 The Primate Brain
12.3 Evolution of Language
12.4 Origin of Primates
12.5 Hominids
12.6 From Archaic to Modern Humans
12.7 Conclusion: From Oldowan Tools to Climate Change
12.8 Glossary
12.9 References
