APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology: Vol. 1: Basic Concepts, Methods, Neural Substrate, and Behavior Vol. 2: Perception, Learning, and Cognition (APA Handbooks in Psychology®)

This two-volume handbook presents the different aspects of comparative psychology--behavior, cognition, learning, and neurophysiology--in a balanced and exhaustive manner. Comparative psychology is the scientific study of animal cognition and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. There are 80 chapters across the set, divided into nine parts. History and Methods constitute the first two parts of the handbook. Key events and basic questions (and controversies) that have shaped the field as well as the methods used to make those questions empirically tractable are presented here. The next three parts--Adaptation/Evolution, Genes/Hormones, and Neural Substrate--present the conceptual foundations for understanding the genesis of behavior and cognition, both from a phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspective. Finally, the next four parts (Behavior, Perception/Attention, Learning/Motivation, and Cognition/Emotion) are devoted to the core research in comparative psychology today. Comparative psychology is the scientific study of animal cognition and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. This two-volume handbook presents the different aspects of comparative psychology -- behavior, cognition, learning, and neurophysiology -- in a balanced and exhaustive manner. There are 80 chapters across the set, divided into nine parts. History and Methods constitute the first two parts of the handbook. Key events and basic questions (and controversies) that have shaped the field as well as the methods used to make those questions empirically tractable are presented here. The next three parts -- Adaptation/Evolution, Genes/Hormones, and Neural Substrate -- present the conceptual foundations for understanding the genesis of behavior and cognition both from a phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspective. Finally, the next four parts (Behavior, Perception/Attention, Learning/Motivation, and Cognition/Emotion) are devoted to the core of comparative psychology today. -- Provided by publisher "The handbook represents an effort to update the knowledge in the field by making an all-inclusive attempt at gathering the major findings of our discipline as well as the theories and the schools of thought that have developed over the years. I encouraged contributors to be as taxonomically broad as possible, with the idea that such a broad base is one of the main strengths of our discipline. Consequently, this handbook offers an exhaustive coverage of cognition, behavior, learning, and physiology--all packaged and presented under the umbrella of evolutionary theory. It combines classical findings with the current and new directions in the field, and in doing so, it attempts to correct as much as possible the inevitable decalage that occurs between what is published in journals and what is included in textbooks"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) "Comparative psychology is the scientific study of animal cognition and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. This two-volume handbook presents the different aspects of comparative psychology--behavior, cognition, learning, and neurophysiology--in a balanced and exhaustive manner. There are 35 chapters in Volume 2, divided into three parts (Part I. Perception, Attention, and Memory; Part II. Learning and Motivation; and Part III. Cognition and Emotion)"--Publicity materials. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) Volume 1. Basic Concepts, Methods, Neural Substrate, And Behavior -- Volume 2. Perception, Learning, And Cognition. Josep Call, Editor-in-chief ; Gordon M. Burghardt, Irene M. Pepperberg, Charles T. Snowdon, And Thomas Zentall, Associate Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.