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Animal Learning

Learning from Animals?

Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness

Learning from Animals?
  • Edited by Louise S. Röska-Hardy, and Eva M. Neumann-Held.

Published October 2008

Human language, cognition, and culture are unique; they are unparalleled in the animal kingdom. The claim that we can learn what makes us human by studying other animal species provokes vigorous reactions and many deny that comparative research can shed any light on the origins and character of…
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Animal Learning and Cognition, 3rd edition

An Introduction

Animal Learning and Cognition, 3rd edition
  • By John M. Pearce.

Published February 2008

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 over the last ten years.…
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Human Contingency Learning: Recent Trends in Research and Theory

A Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Human Contingency Learning: Recent Trends in Research and Theory
  • Edited by Tom Beckers, Jan De Houwer and Helena Matute.

Published March 2007

The present special issue presents an overview of recent developments and controversies in research on human contingency learning. Contributions range from purely fundamental, theoretical analyses, over empirically oriented reports, to more applied contributions, reflecting the breadth of scope of…
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Principles Of Comparative Psychology

  • By Nicky Hayes.

Published June 1994

This textbook covers aspects of animal behaviour featured in both A-Level Psychology and Social Biology courses. It includes accounts and discussions of imprinting, maternal behaviour, courtship and territoriality, social organization, and animal communication. Throughout the book the principle of…
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Principles Of Comparative Psychology

  • By Nicky Hayes.

Published June 1994

This textbook covers aspects of animal behaviour featured in both A-Level Psychology and Social Biology courses. It includes accounts and discussions of imprinting, maternal behaviour, courtship and territoriality, social organization, and animal communication. Throughout the book the principle of…
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Theories of Animal Memory

  • Edited by Donald F. Kendrick, Mark E. Rilling and M. Ray Denny.

Published March 1986


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Comparing Behavior

Studying Man Studying Animals

  • Edited by D. W. Rajecki.

Published April 1983


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