Adaptive Behavior and Learning/contents

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Adaptive Behavior and Learning by J.E.R. Staddon

Contents (2003 Internet Edition)

complete text (PDF) of version updated and corrected in 2010

• Title Page
• Preface
• Chapter 1: The Evolution, Development, and Modification of Behavior
  • Niches, similarities and differences
  • Philosophical background
  • Evolution and development
• Chapter 2: Variation and Selection of Behavior
  • Simple orientation mechanisms
  • Reflex mechanisms
  • Inhibition and reflex strength
• Chapter 3
  • Taxes
  • The integration of behavior
  • The nature of explanation
• Chapter 4
  • Causal and functional analysis of operant behavior
  • The logic of historical systems
• Chapter 5
  • Reinforcement and the law of effect
  • Contingency and feedback functions
• Chapter 6
  • Reinforcement and homeostasis
  • Obesity and schedule performance: a static analysis
• Chapter 7
  • Utility and adaptation to constraint
  • The allocation of behavior
  • Experimental applications
• Chapter 8
  • Optimal choice
  • Matching and maximizing
  • Overall maximizing
• Chapter 9
  • Diet selection and functional response
  • Natural feedback functions
• Chapter 10
  • The definition of stimulus
  • Stimulus generalization
  • Similarity
• Chapter 11
  • Inhibitory and excitatory' control
  • Behavioral contrast and discrimination performance
  • Competition and matching
• Chapter 12
  • Time-allocation constraints: the pressure model
• Chapter 13
  • Temporal control
  • Memory and spatial learning
• Chapter 14
  • Template learning
  • Reinforced learning
• Chapter 15
  • Historical background: operant and respondent behavior
  • Behavioral variation: the origins of operant behavior
  • The guidance of action
  • Experimental applications
• Chapter 16
  • Conditioned reinforcement
  • Avoidance and escape
  • Extinction
• References