Reflections on Adaptive Behavior : Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 394 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Bradford Bks. Bradford Bks.
Subject:	Adaptability (Psychology) Adjustment (Psychology) Behaviorism (Psychology) Adaptation, Psychological. Adaptability (Psychology) Adjustment (Psychology) Behaviorism (Psychology) Electronic books. Festschrift. Festschriften. Festschriften.
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Other authors / contributors:	Staddon, J. E. R. Innis, Nancy K.
ISBN:	9780262276023 026227602X 9781435649026 1435649028 9780262090445 0262090449 9780262590266 0262590263 0262309831 9780262309837 0262090449 9780262090445
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Summary:	J.E.R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research. John Staddon has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. He did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his doctoral work with B.F. Skinner), but his work can be characterized as theoretical behaviorism. Staddon, now at Duke University, believes that experimental analysis is never enough to make sense of behavior and that "theoretical imagination" is also required. Staddon's theoretical imagination has distinguished his work over the years and has influenced the field. Staddon is not afraid to deviate from the norm: when psychologists were maintaining their distance from behavioral psychology, Staddon was promoting optimality theories. Optimality theories in psychology are now commonplace. In this volume, Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss topics that have been important in his work: behavioral ability and choice, memory, time and models (the subject of his work at Harvard), and behaviorism. They also reflect on Staddon's influence on their own work and the evolution of their thinking on these topics. ContributorsGiulio Bolacchi, Daniel T. Cerutti, Mircea Ioan Chelaru, J. Mark Cleaveland, Robert H.I. Dale, Rebecca A. Dixon, Valentin Dragoi, Stephen Gray, Jennifer J. Higa, John M. Horner, Nancy K. Innis, Mandar S. Jog, Richard Keen, John E. Kello, Eric Macaux, Armando Machado, John C. Malone, Jr., Kazuchika Manabe, Susan R. Perry, Alliston K. Reid
Other form:	Print version: Reflections on adaptive behavior. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262090445 0262090449
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Table of Contents:

Theoretical behaviorist : John E.R. Staddon / Nancy K. Innis
Making analogies work : a selectionist model of choice behavior / Armando Machado, Richard Keen and Eric Macaux
Variation and selection in response structures / Alliston K. Reid, Rebecca Dixon and Stephen Gray
Control of response variability : call and pecking location in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) / Kazuchika Manabe
Rules of thumb for choice behavior in pigeons / J.M. Cleaveland
Choice and memory / Daniel T. Cerutti
The spatial memory of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) : durability, interference, and response biases / Robert H.I. Dale
Interval timing and memory : breaking the clock / Jennifer J. Higa
Learning mechanisms in multiple-time-scale theory / Mircea I. Chelaru and Mandar S. Jog
Mechanisms of adaptive behavior : beyond the usual suspects / Valentin Dragoi
Varieties of the behaviorist experience : histories of John E.R. Staddon / Clive D.L. Wynne
Santayana told us, or the prevalence of radical behaviorism / John C. Malone and Susan R. Perry
The end of psychology : what can we expect at the limits of inquiry? / John M. Horner
Reflections on I-O psychology and behaviorism / John E. Kello
A new paradigm for the integration of the social sciences / Giulio Bolacchi.

Reflections on Adaptive Behavior : Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon /

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