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This book provides a unique framework for understanding diverse issues across behavior studies, facilitating collaboration between sub-disciplines.
List 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.
About the author
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).
Summary
Ethology, the study of animal behavior, has evolved into several sub-fields. Here, Hogan presents a common framework for understanding a broad range of issues across these fields. This framework demonstrates how results in one area can inform work in others, opening the way for improved dialog between researchers.
Report
'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')
