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In this book J. E. R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of parsimonious real-time models for behavior. The models are neither physiological nor cognitive: they are behavioristic. Staddon shows how simple dynamic models can explain a surprising variety of animal and human behavior, ranging from simple orientation, reflexes, and habituation through feeding regulation, operant conditioning, spatial navigation, stimulus generalization, and interval timing. Preface......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 14 1 Theoretical Behaviorism: Aim and Methods......Page 18 2 Adaptive Function, I: The Allocation of Behavior......Page 44 3 Adaptive Function, II: Behavioral Economics......Page 68 4 Trial and Error......Page 96 5 Reflexes......Page 122 6 Habituation and Memory Dynamics......Page 152 7 Motivation, I: Feeding Dynamics and Homeostasis......Page 174 8 Motivation, II: A Model for Feeding Dynamics......Page 194 9 Motivation, III: Incentive and Schedule Effects......Page 220 10 Assignment of Credit......Page 252 11 Stimulus Control......Page 276 12 Spatial Search......Page 302 13 Time, I: Pacemaker-Accumulator Models......Page 328 14 Time, II: Multiple-Time-Scale Theory......Page 352 15 Time, III: MTS and Time Estimation......Page 370 16 Afterword......Page 388 Notes......Page 396 References......Page 406 Index......Page 430