Comparative psychology : a handbook / Gary Greenberg, Maury M. Haraway, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Foreword -- Sect. I. Historical and International Perspectives -- History of Comparative Psychology in Biographical Sketches -- History of Comparative Psychology: Euro-Marxist Perspectives -- Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Comparative Psychology -- International Perspectives on Comparative Psychology -- Sect. II. Theory, Concepts, and Issues -- Allometry and Comparative Psychology: Technique and Theory -- Anagenesis -- Anthropomorphism -- Approach/Withdrawal Theory -- Behavioral Ecology -- Developmental Contextualism -- Dynamical Systems and Dialectical Processes in Development and Evolution -- Epigenesis -- Evolution -- Gibsonion Theory in Comparative Psychology -- Homology -- Individual Differences -- Instinct -- Integrative Levels -- Lloyd Morgan's Canon -- Motivation -- Rodent Models of Behavior -- Sociobiology -- Species-Typical Behavior -- Stimulus-Seeking Behavior -- Teaching Considered as Behavior -- Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Behavior -- Sect. III. Methodology -- Apparatus in Comparative Psychology -- Behavior-Genetic Analysis -- Comparative Methods in Behavioral Studies -- Multivariate Latent Variable Models -- Open-Field Procedures -- Research in Zoos and Aquariums -- Sect. IV. Physiology, Sensation and Perception -- Biological Rhythms -- Chemical Senses -- Hearing -- Hormones and Behavior -- Mammalian Pheromones -- Physiology of Animal Behavior -- Sleep -- Visual Perception -- Sect. V. Species and Groups -- Alleviating Fear in Poultry -- Biopsychology of Lizard Reproductive Behavior -- Cephalopod Behavior -- Chimpanzee Behavior: A Comparative Cognitive Perspective -- Cognitive Capacities of Birds -- Dogs in Service to Humans -- Domesticated Ruminant Behavior -- Drosophila Behavior and Ecology -- Escape and Avoidance in Fishes -- Gibbons: The Singing Apes -- Marsupial Behavior -- Mountain Sheep -- New World Primates -- Old World Monkeys -- Orangutans -- Sea Turtles -- Siamese Fighting Fish -- Snakes -- Squirrel Foraging Behavior -- Wolves -- Sect. VI. Learning and Development -- Attachment in Mammals -- Bird Song Development -- Classical Conditioning -- Comparative Analyses of Learning -- Conditioned Preferences -- Conditioned Taste Aversions -- Discrimination Learning Set and Transfer -- Imprinting -- Operant Conditioning -- Prenatal Ontogeny of Sensory Responsiveness and Learning -- Sexual Learning -- Tradition and Imitation in Animals -- Sect. VII. Selected Behaviors -- Aggression -- Agonistic Behavior -- Courtship -- Curiosity and Exploratory Behavior -- Defensive Behaviors -- Foraging -- Grooming Behavior of Primates -- Habitat Selection -- Handedness in Animals -- Homing and Related Phenomena -- Laboratory Simulations of Foraging -- Locomotor Behavior and Physical Reality -- Peacemaking in Primates -- Play -- Psychobiology of Parental Behavior in Mammals -- Shoaling and Schooling Behavior of Fishes -- Territoriality -- Territorial Defense -- Tonic Immobility -- Vertebrate Sexual Behavior -- Sect. VIII. Cognitive Processes -- Approaches to the Study of Cognition -- Cognition in Animals -- Counting Behavior -- Honey Bee "Dance Language" Controversy -- Language in Animals -- Self-Recognition in Nonhuman Primates -- Tool Use -- Species Index -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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