| Summary: | The past half-century has seen a dramatic shift in the biobehavioral study of learning and motivation. Fifty years ago, theory was dominated by mechanistic ideas about drive, reinforcement, and temporal contiguity. Now ethological and cognitive themes have become part of the lexicon. Robert C. Bolles was at the forefront of this emerging school of thought, advocating a new blend of psychology and ethology. The volume reflects his influential scholarship and shares the same themes that guided his thinking: behavior and function. /// In this volume, Bolles's former students, contemporaries, and colleagues continue his legacy in writing upon these themes. The volume beings with a section on evolution, ontogeny, and phylogeny that emphasizes the functional aspects of behavior. The 2nd section describes the interaction of learning with regulatory physiology. Learned food preferences and aversions are the subject of the 3rd section. Next, the book pays tribute to Bolles's work on the problems of aversively motivated behavior, specifically defensive behavior. The final section of the book addresses cognitive processes in animals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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