The aim of the third edition of this book is... to provide a lucid introduction to contemporary
phenomena and theories about learning and behavior. The book strives to present a …

This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

Quantitative theories with free parameters often gain credence when they closely fit data.
This is a mistake. A good fit reveals nothing about the flexibility of the theory (how much it …

The costs associated with a drug's clinical trials are so significant that it has become
necessary to validate both its safety and efficacy in animal models prior to the continued …

The role of early maladaptive schemas in understanding and treating post‐traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) was investigated. The first study examined the role of perceived adverse …

The hippocampus and the amygdala are involved in avoidance learning in mammals. The
medial and lateral pallia of actinopterygian fish have been proposed as homologous to the …

The adaptive toolbox: Towards a Darwinian rationality Page 1 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The
adaptive toolbox: Towards a Darwinian rationality Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for …

This paper investigates spatially cued behavioural responses of two species of fish to an
acute noxious stimulus and demonstrates response elasticity. Typical avoidance responses …

This revised third edition provides an up to date, comprehensive overview of the field of
comparative psychology, integrating both evolutionary and developmental studies of brain …

In the three quarters of a century following Pavlov's work, the accumulation of factual
information about classical conditioning has continued, but there has been little conceptual …