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ISBN-10 : 1137367296
ISBN-13 : 9781137367297
Author: Clive D.L. Wynne, Monique A. R. Udell
What occupies the mind of an animal? To what extent do they experience consciousness? Is there such a thing as culture in the animal kingdom? For those new to this fascinating topic, this innovative text delivers an apt and comprehensive introduction to the rich and complex world of animal behaviour and cognition. Discover pivotal case studies and experiments that have irrevocably shaped how we view the psychological and social lives of animals and discover such key cognitive topics as memory, communication and sensory perception.
Animal Cognition Behavior and Cognition 2nd Table of contents:
1. Evolution, Adaptation, Cognition, and Behavior: An Introduction
On Minds, Thought, and Intelligence in Animals
Historical Background: Darwin, Wallace, and the Minds of Beasts
A Cautionary Tale and a Canon
Clever Hans: the horse with the intelligence of a 14-year-old child
Lloyd Morgan’s canon: the most awesome weapon in animal psychology
Now and the Future
Further Reading
Web sources
2. Other Ways of Seeing the World
Vision
The pigeon’s eye view of the world: a case study in animal vision
Patterns and pictures
Smell
Hearing
Magnetic sensitivity
Electric sense
Sensitivity to air pressure
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
3. Concept Formation
Perceptual Concepts
Object Permanence
Relational Concepts
Same-different
Stimulus equivalence
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
4. Time and Number
Time
Learning about time of day
Learning about short time intervals
Numbers
Relative number judgments: more or less
Absolute number
Counting
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
5. Cause and Effect
Pavlovian Conditioning
Outline
Pavlovian conditioning through the animal kingdom
What is learned in Pavlovian conditioning?
Instrumental Conditioning
Outline
Learning from consequences
Instrumental conditioning throughout the animal kingdom
What is learned in instrumental conditioning?
Biological predispositions and roadblocks
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
6. Reasoning
Tool Use
Insight
Reasoning by Analogy
Series Learning I: Transitive Inference
Series Learning II: Linear Ordering
Fairness
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
7. Navigation
Spatial Reasoning
Dead reckoning
Routes, landmarks, and beacons
The sun-compass
Cognitive maps and shortcuts
Case studies
Pigeon homing
Bees foraging
Distractions, side biases, and other considerations
Migration
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
8. Social Cognition and Self-Awareness
Self-Recognition: Is That Me? – Studies on Mirror Recognition
Sensitivity to the Actions of Others
What Are You Looking At? Sensitivity to the Gaze of Others
Theory of Mind
Do You See What I See?
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
9. Social Learning
Social Influence
Social facilitation
Stimulus and local enhancement
Affordance learning
Social Learning: What Is It, Why Do It?
Imitation – The Sincerest Form of Flattery
True imitation
Emulation
Same end, different means
Same means, different end
Same means, competitive end
Teaching
Teaching in meerkats
Teaching in ants
Teaching in apes
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
10. Remembering
Simple Memories
Short-Term Memory
Capacity
Duration
Serial order effects
What causes forgetting?
Long-Term Memory
Food-storing birds
Marsh tits and chickadees
Nutcrackers
Pigeons
Implicit and Explicit Memory
Metamemory – knowledge of what one remembers
Episodic memory – what, when, and where
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
11. Animal Communication in the Wild
The Dance of the Honeybee
Chicken Alarm Calls
Vervet Monkeys of Kenya
Diana Monkeys Eavesdropping on Other Species’ Signals
Dolphins
The Function and Evolution of Referential Calls
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
12. Language
Ape Language Studies
Words
Sentences
Kanzi
Language Training with Other Species
Communicating with Dolphins
Irene Pepperberg and Alex
Conclusions
Further Reading
Web sources
13. Conclusions and Comparisons
Brain Size
Learning Set
Taking the Person Out of Animal Personality
Are There Really Differences between Species?
Further Reading
Web sources
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