Imprinting And Early Learning

Author : Wladyslaw Sluckin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351513180

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Imprinting and Early Learning by Wladyslaw Sluckin Pdf

What is imprinting and what role does it play in the early development of the individual? What is its theoretical importance for understanding the mechanisms of instinct and learning? What is its significance in the development of the young of our own species? This book attempts to answer all these questions. In recent years imprinting has attracted much interest. This has been in no small measure the result of the admirable writings of Konrad Lorenz. The continued interest in this field of research has been bound up with the realization among students of behavior that imprinting and imprinting-like processes may be highly significant in the ontogenetic development of very many species, possibly including our own. The study of imprinting has become an area of collaboration between zoologists, who were the initiators of the research, and psychologists, who promptly took it up and extended it. Imprinting and Early Learning is a compendium of the data and experimental reports on the youthful study of imprinting and early learning-a progress report that traces the history of interest in the theory of imprinting and similar processes, considers imprinting side by side with related concepts and empirical studies, reviews the full range of experiments that illuminate the characteristic nature of imprinting, elucidates the relationship of imprinting to conditioning and early learning, and points out the implications of imprinting for work in educational, social and abnormal psychology.

Author : W. Sluckin
Publisher : Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Imprinting (Psychology).
ISBN : UCAL:$B93436

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Imprinting and Early Learning by W. Sluckin Pdf

Author : Robert M. Miller
Publisher : Western Horseman Book
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foals
ISBN : WISC:89063225197

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Imprint Training of the Newborn Foal by Robert M. Miller Pdf

A swift, effective method for pernamently shaping a horse's lifetime behvior.

Author : W. Sluckin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351365628

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Early Learning in Man and Animal by W. Sluckin Pdf

Originally published in 1970, this is a survey of findings on the learning of young animals and human infants. In an attempt to discover some of the characteristic features of early learning, it examines all types of learning from conditioning and the primitive process known as ‘imprinting’, usually associated with ducklings, to the beginnings of understanding and language. The so-called ‘critical’ periods for social learning and personality development are considered at some length, and a close look is taken at research methods used in studying early learning, and at the needs and problems of current research. As a textbook for students of psychology, biology and sociology this book would have been invaluable at the time of publication. It should still also be of interest to research workers in the fields of animal behaviour and developmental psychology, and to practising psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers, as it is an up-to-date summary of all the knowledge concerning early learning at the time.

Author : Gil G. Rosenthal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691150673

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Mate Choice by Gil G. Rosenthal Pdf

A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom. Providing the first synthesis of the topic in more than three decades, and drawing from a wide range of fields, including animal behavior, evolutionary biology, social psychology, neuroscience, and economics, Rosenthal argues that "good genes" play a relatively minor role in shaping mate choice decisions and demonstrates how mate choice is influenced by genetic factors, environmental effects, and social interactions. Looking at diverse organisms, from protozoans to humans, Rosenthal explores how factors beyond the hunt for good genes combine to produce an endless array of preferences among species and individuals. He explains how mating decisions originate from structural constraints on perception and from nonsexual functions, and how single organisms benefit or lose from their choices. Both the origin of species and their fusion through hybridization are strongly influenced by direct selection on preferences in sexual and nonsexual contexts. Rosenthal broadens the traditional scope of mate choice research to encompass not just animal behavior and behavioral ecology but also neurobiology, the social sciences, and other areas. Focusing on mate choice mechanisms, rather than the traits they target, Mate Choice offers a groundbreaking perspective on the proximate and ultimate forces determining the evolutionary fate of species and populations.

Author : W. Edward Craighead,Charles B. Nemeroff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0471240966

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The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Volume 1 by W. Edward Craighead,Charles B. Nemeroff Pdf

Encyclopedia

Author : E. H. Dolnick,R. L. Medford,R. J. Schied
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Canidae
ISBN : CORNELL:31924000512040

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Bibliography on the Control and Management of the Coyote and Related Canids with Selected References on Animal Physiology, Behaviour, Control Methods and Reproduction by E. H. Dolnick,R. L. Medford,R. J. Schied Pdf

Author : Klaus Immelmann,George W. Barlow,Lewis Petrinovich,Mary Biggar Main
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521240581

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Behavioral Development by Klaus Immelmann,George W. Barlow,Lewis Petrinovich,Mary Biggar Main Pdf

Author : Cynthia Moss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429967252

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Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes by Cynthia Moss Pdf

How do bats catch insects in the dark? How do bees learn which flowers to visit? How do food-storing birds remember where their hoards are? Questions like these are addressed by neuroethology, the branch of behavioral neuroscience concerned with analyzing the neural bases of naturally occurring behaviors. This book brings together thirteen chapters presenting findings on perceptual and cognitive processes in some of the most active areas of neuroethological research, including auditory localization by bats and owls, song perception and learning in birds, pitch processing by frogs and toads, imprinting in birds, spatial memory in birds, learning in bees and in Aplysia, and electroreception in fish. A variety of approaches are represented, such as field studies, psychophysical tests, electrophysiological experiments, lesion studies, comparative neuroanatomy, and studies of development. Each chapter gives an up-to-date overview of a particular author’s research and places it within the broader context of issues about animal perception and cognition. The book as a whole exemplifies how studying species and their particular specializations can inform general issues in psychology, ethology, and neuro-science.

Author : Gary Greenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136794513

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Comparative Psychology by Gary Greenberg Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413262

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Religious Experience in Earliest Christianity by Luke Timothy Johnson Pdf

In three fascinating probes of early Christianity - examining baptism, speaking in tongues, and meals in common - Johnson illustrates how a more wholistic approach opens up the world of healings and religious power, of ecstasy and spire - in short, the religious experience of real persons. Early Christian texts, he finds, reflect lives caught up in and defined by a power not in their control but engendered instead by the crucified and raised Messiah Jesus.

Author : Hans Helmut Kornhuber,Lüder Deecke
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761858577

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The Will and its Brain by Hans Helmut Kornhuber,Lüder Deecke Pdf

In 1964–1965, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke achieved a scientific breakthrough with the discovery of the Bereitschaftspotential (BP), or readiness potential. In The Will and its Brain, Kornhuber and Deecke present evidence that proves we can record activity from the human brain occurring prior to our volitional movements or actions. Such preparatory activity is generated by specific brain regions, particularly by the supplementary motor area (SMA) of the frontal lobe, which lies on the inner surface of the brain between the hemispheres. The primary (precentral) motor cortex (MI) later becomes activated in preparing for action. Consequently, the authors discriminate between two components of the preparatory activity of the Bereitschaftspotential: an early SMA-generated BP1 and a late MI-derived BP2. Between BP1 and BP2, the intentional activity runs over the so-called motor loop via the basal ganglia. Kornhuber and Deecke discuss these and other brain processing systems while focusing on the concept of free will. They claim that we, indeed, have free will. It may not be absolutely free, but free in terms of degrees. We can take efforts to increase our degrees of freedom through self-improvement, but we can also lose degrees of freedom through self-mismanagement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1972-12-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080582656

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Advances in the Study of Behavior by Anonim Pdf

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Author : N. Smythe,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 9251036403

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Domestication and Husbandry of the Paca (Agouti Paca). by N. Smythe,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Possible neotropical mammals for domestication; Comom names; The paca in the wild; Domestication and the paca; Traditional paca raising methods and their short-comings; Project planning; Cage specifications; Methods of introducing potential pair members to one another; The training process; Diet; Health; The reproductive potential of pacas; Is paca domestication economically feasible? Preparing pacas for the table.

Author : Patrick Bateson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783742516

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Behaviour, Development and Evolution by Patrick Bateson Pdf

The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible book, eminent biologist Professor Sir Patrick Bateson suggests that the nature/nurture dichotomy we often use to think about questions of development in both humans and animals is misleading. Instead, he argues that we should pay attention to whole systems, rather than to simple causes, when trying to understand the complexity of development. In his wide-ranging approach Bateson discusses why so much behaviour appears to be well-designed. He explores issues such as ‘imprinting’ and its importance to the attachment of offspring to their parents; the mutual benefits that characterise communication between parent and offspring; the importance of play in learning how to choose and control the optimal conditions in which to thrive; and the vital function of adaptability in the interplay between development and evolution. Bateson disputes the idea that a simple link can be found between genetics and behaviour. What an individual human or animal does in its life depends on the reciprocal nature of its relationships with the world about it. This knowledge also points to ways in which an animal’s own behaviour can provide the variation that influences the subsequent course of evolution. This has relevance not only for our scientific approaches to the systems of development and evolution, but also on how humans change institutional rules that have become dysfunctional, or design public health measures when mismatches occur between themselves and their environments. It affects how we think about ourselves and our own capacity for change.