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Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up to date review of the principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new edition has been expanded to take account of the many exciting developments that have occurred in the last ten years.

• Contents.
• Preface.
• 1. The study of animal intelligence.
  • The distribution of intelligence.
  • Defining animal intelligence.
  • Why study animal intelligence?
  • Methods for studying animal intelligence Historical background
• 2. Associative learning Conditioning techniques.
  • The nature of associative learning.
  • Stimulus-stimulus learning.
  • The nature of us representations.
  • The conditioned response.
  • Concluding comment: the reflexive nature of the conditioned response.
• 3. The conditions for learning: Surprise and attention.
  • Part 1: Surprise and conditioning.
  • Conditioning with a single CS.
  • Conditioning with a compound CS.
  • Evaluation of the Rescorla-Wagner model.
  • Part 2: Attention and conditioning Wagner's theory.
  • Stimulus significance.
  • The Pearce-Hall theory.
  • Concluding comments.
• 4. Instrumental conditioning.
  • The nature of instrumental learning.
  • The conditions of learning.
  • The performance of instrumental behavior.
  • The Law of Effect and problem solving.
• 5. Extinction.
  • Extinction as generalization decrement.
  • The conditions for extinction.
  • Associative changes during extinction.
  • Are trials important for Pavlovian extinction?
• 6. Discrimination learning.
  • Theories of discrimination learning.
  • Connectionist models of discrimination learning.
  • Metacognition and discrimination learning.
• 7. Category formation.
  • Examples of categorization.
  • Theories of categorization.
  • Abstract categories Relationships as categories.
  • The representation of knowledge.
• 8. Short-term retention.
  • Methods of study.
  • Forgetting.
  • Theoretical interpretation.
  • Serial position effects.
  • Metamemory.
• 9. Long-term retention.
  • Capacity.
  • Durability.
  • Theoretical interpretation.
  • Episodic memory.
• 10. Time, number, and serial order.
  • Time.
  • Number.
  • Serial order.
  • Transitive inference.
  • Concluding comments.
• 11. Navigation.
  • Part 1: Short-distance travel.
  • Methods of navigation.
  • Part 2: Long-distance travel.
  • Navigational cues.
  • Homing.
  • Migration.
  • Concluding comments.
• 12. Social learning.
  • Diet selection and foraging.
  • Choosing a mate.
  • Fear of predators.
  • Copying behavior: mimicry.
  • Copying behavior: imitation.
  • Theory of mind.
  • Self-recognition.
  • Concluding comments.
• 13. Animal communication and language.
  • Animal communication.
  • Communication and language.
  • Can an ape create a sentence?
  • Language training with other species.
  • The requirements for learning a language.
• 14. The distribution of intelligence.
  • Intelligence and brain size.
  • The null hypothesis.
  • Intelligence and evolution.
• References.

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