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Author : Claire H. Schiller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Instinctive Behavior written by Claire H. Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert Gottlieb
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317778588
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Synthesizing Nature-nurture written by Gilbert Gottlieb and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes novel solutions to the nature-nurture problem at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Following field observations, laboratory experiments led to the discovery of the nonobvious prenatal experiential basis of instinctive behavior in two species--ground-nesting mallard ducklings and hole-nesting wood ducklings. This work also describes the experiences that lead to the rigid canalization of behavioral development as well as the social and sensory experiences that favor the continuance of flexibility. The author also describes in detail a developmental psychobiological systems view that supports a behaviorally and psychologically mediated pathway to evolutionary change in humans and other species. Written in a way that is readable to even the nonspecialist, the text is accompanied by numerous photographs that illuminate and add personal meaning to the written words. Readers will be engaged by the emphasis on the human aspect of the scientific enterprise.
Author : Richard W. Burkhardt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226080900
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Patterns of Behavior written by Richard W. Burkhardt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Kim Magloire
Publisher : The Princeton Review
ISBN 13 : 9780375763939
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Cracking the AP Biology Exam written by Kim Magloire and published by The Princeton Review. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated series by Princeton Review helps students pass the challenging Advance Placement Test, with targeted study for each exam of the series.
Author : W. Edward Craighead
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471220367
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science written by W. Edward Craighead and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by high caliber experts, and contributed to by quality researchers and practitioners in psychology and related fields. Includes over 500 topical entries Each entry features suggested readings and extensive cross-referencing Accessible to students and general readers Edited by two outstanding scholars and clinicians
Author : Amanda Spink
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642114970
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Information Behavior written by Amanda Spink and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life, however our knowledge and understanding of it is incomplete and underdeveloped scientifically. Research on the topic is largely contemporary in focus and has generally not incorporated results from other disciplines. In this monograph Spink provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition. In her presentation, she argues that information behavior is an important instinctive sociocognitive ability that can only be fully understood with a highly interdisciplinary approach. The leitmotivs of her examination are three important research questions: First, what is the evolutionary, biological and developmental nature of information behavior? Second, what is the role of instinct versus environment in shaping information behavior? And, third, how have information behavior capabilities evolved and developed over time? Written for researchers in information science as well as social and cognitive sciences, Spink’s controversial text lays the foundation for a new interdisciplinary theoretical perspective on information behavior that will not only provide a more holistic framework for this field but will also impact those sciences, and thus also open up many new research directions.
Author : Gad Saad
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144300
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Consuming Instinct written by Gad Saad and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly informative and entertaining book, the founder of the vibrant new field of evolutionary consumption illuminates the relevance of our biological heritage to our daily lives as consumers. While culture is important, the author shows that innate evolutionary forces deeply influence the foods we eat, the gifts we offer, the cosmetics and clothing styles we choose to make ourselves more attractive to potential mates, and even the cultural products that stimulate our imaginations (such as art, music, and religion). The book demonstrates that most acts of consumption can be mapped onto four key Darwinian drives—namely, survival (we prefer foods high in calories); reproduction (we use products as sexual signals); kin selection (we naturally exchange gifts with family members); and reciprocal altruism (we enjoy offering gifts to close friends). The author further highlights the analogous behaviors that exist between human consumers and a wide range of animals. For anyone interested in the biological basis of human behavior or simply in what makes consumers tick—marketing professionals, advertisers, psychology mavens, and consumers themselves—this is a fascinating read.
Author : Paolo Casale
Publisher : Barron's Educational Series
ISBN 13 : 9780764109522
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Animal Behavior written by Paolo Casale and published by Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about the actions and instincts of animals of various species, including humans, exploring parent-child relationships, behavior differences between predators and prey, territorial instincts, and other types of behavior.
Author : Susan Oyama
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262650632
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Cycles of Contingency written by Susan Oyama and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic structure, and social and ecological interactions. DST has excited interest from a wide range of researchers, from molecular biologists to anthropologists, because of its ability to integrate evolutionary theory and other disciplines without falling into traditional oppositions.The book provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of the DST framework to behavioral development, implications of DST for the philosophy of biology, and critical reactions to DST.
Author : David Huron
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262303302
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Sweet Anticipation written by David Huron and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as those interested in music. The book describes a set of psychological mechanisms and illustrates how these mechanisms work in the case of music. All examples of notated music can be heard on the Web. Huron proposes that emotions evoked by expectation involve five functionally distinct response systems: reaction responses (which engage defensive reflexes); tension responses (where uncertainty leads to stress); prediction responses (which reward accurate prediction); imagination responses (which facilitate deferred gratification); and appraisal responses (which occur after conscious thought is engaged). For real-world events, these five response systems typically produce a complex mixture of feelings. The book identifies some of the aesthetic possibilities afforded by expectation, and shows how common musical devices (such as syncopation, cadence, meter, tonality, and climax) exploit the psychological opportunities. The theory also provides new insights into the physiological psychology of awe, laughter, and spine-tingling chills. Huron traces the psychology of expectations from the patterns of the physical/cultural world through imperfectly learned heuristics used to predict that world to the phenomenal qualia we experienced as we apprehend the world.
Author : Yang Cai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1447172787
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Instinctive Computing written by Yang Cai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to connect artificial intelligence to primitive intelligence. It explores the idea that a genuinely intelligent computer will be able to interact naturally with humans. To form this bridge, computers need the ability to recognize, understand and even have instincts similar to humans. The author organizes the book into three parts. He starts by describing primitive problem-solving, discussing topics like default mode, learning, tool-making, pheromones and foraging. Part two then explores behavioral models of instinctive cognition by looking at the perception of motion and event patterns, appearance and gesture, behavioral dynamics, figurative thinking, and creativity. The book concludes by exploring instinctive computing in modern cybernetics, including models of self-awareness, stealth, visual privacy, navigation, autonomy, and survivability. Instinctive Computing reflects upon systematic thinking for designing cyber-physical systems and it would be a stimulating reading for those who are interested in artificial intelligence, cybernetics, ethology, human-computer interaction, data science, computer science, security and privacy, social media, or autonomous robots.
Author : Kenneth R. Miller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476790272
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Human Instinct written by Kenneth R. Miller and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evolution). Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on Earth—a place confirmed by the literature and traditions of every human tribe. But then the theory of evolution arrived to shake the tree of human understanding to its roots. To many of the most passionate advocates for Darwin’s theory, we are just one species among multitudes, no more significant than any other. Even our minds are not our own, they tell us, but living machines programmed for nothing but survival and reproduction. In The Human Instinct, Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller “confronts both lay and professional misconceptions about evolution” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), showing that while evolution explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, that heritage does not limit or predetermine human behavior. In fact, Miller argues in this “highly recommended” (Forbes) work that it is only thanks to evolution that we have the power to shape our destiny. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct makes an “absorbing, lucid, and engaging…case that it was evolution that gave us our humanity” (Ursula Goodenough, professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis).
Author : Ernest Howard Callahan
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 161458799X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Instincts by Design written by Ernest Howard Callahan and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Instincts by Design, you will discover scientific mysteries of human and animal bodies only creation can explain. This fascinating, full-color book explores the instincts that are necessary for life, helpful for growth, and necessary for protection. Instincts by Design will keep readers captivated with answers to questions like these: How does a baby know when to inhale and exhale? How does a mother’s milk change to mee the needs of her baby? Why is the instinct to sleep one that we cannot override? Why is it important that your tongue is the center of your taste receptors? Why is the hunger instinct crucial for survival? What instincts help brainless jellyfish hunt and kill their prey? Why would God give horses the ability to sleep standing up? How do more than 5000 species of birds journey thousands of miles every year? The key question for someone doubting there is a God is whether these complex sets of instructions could have appeared without a Programmer. Instincts by Design is the #ProBible resource you will want to share with family and friends who need more evidence that they are fearfully and wonderfully made by the Almighty God. Christian readers will finish this book with an awe of the creative, perfectionist God who loves us so much that he did all this for everyone.
Author : William G. Van der Kloot
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 : 9780030840777
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Readings in Behavior written by William G. Van der Kloot and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1974 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eli C. Minkoff
Publisher : Garland Science
ISBN 13 : 9780815327608
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Biology Today written by Eli C. Minkoff and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biology as a subject not only plays a major role within the scientific world but has broader implications that cross many boundaries. This work takes a modern and innovative approach to teaching introductory biology; it presents fundamental biological concepts within the context of current social issues. How do scientists affect our society at large? How are ethics and morals applied to the scientific world? Why are we racing to complete the human genome project, and who are we racing against? How do economic disparities between people and nations influence habitat destruction? Can plant science feed the world? Are the causes of cancer more genetic or environmental? The book seeks to help students think critically about these questions and to explore and assess the role that science plays in their world.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080453376
Total Pages : 2662 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 2662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Three Volume Set has engaged with great success the efforts of many of the best behavioral biologists of the 21st century. Section editors drawn from the most accomplished behavioral scientists of their generation have enrolled an international cast of highly respected thinkers and writers all of whom have taken great care and joy in illuminating every imaginable corner of animal behavior. This comprehensive work covers not only the usual topics such as communication, learning, sexual selection, navigation, and the history of the field, but also emerging topics in cognition, animal welfare, conservation, and applications of animal behavior. The large section on animal cognition brings together many of the world's experts on the subject to provide a comprehensive overview of this rapidly developing area. Chapters relating to animal welfare give a full view of behavioral interactions of humans with companion animals, farm animals, and animals in the wild. The key role of animal behavior in conservation biology receives broad attention, including chapters on topics such as the effects of noise pollution, captive breeding, and how the behavioral effects of parasites interacts with conservation issues. Animal behavior in environmental biology is highlighted in chapters on the effects of endocrine disruptors on behavior and a large number of chapters on key species, such as wolves, chimpanzees, hyenas and sharks. Clear, accessible writing complements a wealth of information for undergraduate college students about the essential concepts of animal behavior and the application of those concepts across the field. In-depth coverage of concepts, methods, and exemplar organisms serves the needs of graduate students and professionals in the field. From the use of behavior in assessing the welfare of pigs to the social behavior of insects, from animal empathy to bat brains, this authoritative reference, with its in-depth introductory articles, rich array of illustrations, interactive cross-referenced links, and numerous suggested readings, can guide the student or the professional to an expanded appreciation of the far-flung world of animal behavior. An invaluable tool for teaching and a source of enrichment and detail for any topic covered in an animal behavior course, the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior is the definitive reference work in its field and will be for years to come. Comprehensive work which covers the usual topics along with emerging areas of animal behavior This encyclopedia contains clear, accessible writing and is well illustrated, including an online video, complimenting a wealth of information As an online reference, this work will be subject to period updating. This ensures that the work always remains current Contains in-depth introductions to the material that make each well-illustrated section come alive with the best the new content the discipline has to offer Glossary includes a compendium of behavioral terms that form a succinct mosaic of virtually every concept and phenomenon related to animal behavior Section editors, drawn from around the world, represent the best and the brightest among today's behavioral biologists and have recruited a broad range of internationally recognized experts Editors-in-Chief are experienced scientists and writers who between them have authored or edited eight books and teach courses in animal behavior at their respective universities
Author : Stephen B. Klein
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452271933
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Learning written by Stephen B. Klein and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the latest scholarship and applications in the field, Learning: Principles and Applications, Seventh Edition shows students the relevance of basic learning processes through real-world examples, vignettes, critical thinking questions, and applications. Acclaimed for its accessible and thorough coverage of both classic and current studies of animal and human research, the book is known for its scholarship and easy-to-read style, and the introduction of concepts and theories within the framework of highly effective pedagogical elements, the new edition has been updated and reorganized into twelve chapters to reflect recent changes in the field.
