Adaptive Behavior and Learning/contents

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

Contents (2003 Internet Edition)
[[media:StaddonAdaptiveBehaviorLearning2010.pdf|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