Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 22Academic Press, 1989 M03 1 - 370 pages Psychology of Learning and Motivation |
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... answer the question, What should animals do? Psychological explanations answer the question, How do animals do it? The distinction is essentially that between functional (evolutionary or ultimate) and causal (mechanistic or proximate) ...
... answer the question, What should animals do? Psychological explanations answer the question, How do animals do it? The distinction is essentially that between functional (evolutionary or ultimate) and causal (mechanistic or proximate) ...
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... answers the question: How should prey be selected to maximize the net rate of energy intake? The answer can be derived by considering, for each item, its net energy yield (e), handling time (h), and encounter rate in items/unit time (A) ...
... answers the question: How should prey be selected to maximize the net rate of energy intake? The answer can be derived by considering, for each item, its net energy yield (e), handling time (h), and encounter rate in items/unit time (A) ...
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... answer questions about how animals solve such problems. VI. Sampling and Information A. SAMPLING VS. MOMENTARY MAXIMIZING In a changing environment, the patch or prey item that was best yesterday may not be best today. Nuts may have ...
... answer questions about how animals solve such problems. VI. Sampling and Information A. SAMPLING VS. MOMENTARY MAXIMIZING In a changing environment, the patch or prey item that was best yesterday may not be best today. Nuts may have ...
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... answering the question of how animals do it is to analyze molecular aspects of behavior such as trial-by-trial patterns of choice. For example, Plowright (1988) finds that pigeons on a two-armed bandit with independent trials switch ...
... answering the question of how animals do it is to analyze molecular aspects of behavior such as trial-by-trial patterns of choice. For example, Plowright (1988) finds that pigeons on a two-armed bandit with independent trials switch ...
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... answer to the question posed by the title of this article, it would not be true to say that operant studies of foraging have produced any wholly new accounts of operant behavior nor that they have provided many new answers to old ...
... answer to the question posed by the title of this article, it would not be true to say that operant studies of foraging have produced any wholly new accounts of operant behavior nor that they have provided many new answers to old ...
Contents
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Reinforcement Behavioral Stereotypy And Problem Solving | 93 |
Memory Performance And Phenomenological Appearance | 139 |
A Review And A New View | 193 |
Chapter 6 Strategic Control Of Retrieval Strategies | 227 |
Chapter 7 Alternative Representations | 261 |
Chapter 8 Evidence For Relational Selectivity In The Interpretation Of Analogy And Metaphor | 307 |
Index | 359 |
Contents of Recent Volumes | 369 |
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