The Development of Animal Behavior: A Reader / Edition 1

by Johan J. Bolhuis, Jerry A. Hogan, Patrick Bateson

Overview

This book brings together for the first time, a collection of classic texts combined with a number of contemporary syntheses on the widely studied topic of behavioural development in animals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631207085
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/26/1999
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Johan J. Bolhuis is Assistant Professor of Animal Behaviour at the Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Jerry A. Hogan is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Patrick Bateson.

Preface.

Part I: General Principles of Development.

Introduction.

1. Principles of Development and Differentiation (excerpt). C. H. Waddington.

2. Ontogenetic Adaptations and Retrogressive Processes in the Development of the Nervous System and Behaviour: A Neuroembryological Perspective. R. W. Oppenheim.

3. From Watsonian Behaviourism to Behaviour Epigenetics: Zin-Yang Kuo.

4. Developmental Changes in Sensitivity to Experience. Patrick Bateson and Robert A. Hinde.

5. Behavioural Development: Towards Understanding Processes. C. ten Cate.

Part II: Theoretical Debates - Nature/Nurture and Beyond.

Introduction.

6. A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behaviour (excerpt). Daniel S. Lehrman.

7. Heredity and Environment in Mammalian Behaviour. Donald O. Hebb.

8. Evolution and Modification of Behaviour (excerpt). Konrad Lorenz.

9. Semantic and Conceptual Issues in the Nature-Nurture Problem. Daniel S. Lehrman.

Part III: Empirical Paradigms: Development of Perceptual and Motor Mechanisms. Introduction.

Development of Perceptual and Motor Mechanisms.

10. The Developing Brain. Carla J. Shatz.

11. Development of Species Identification in Ducklings: VI Specific Embryonic Experience Required to Maintain Species-Typical Perception in Peking Ducklings. Gilbert Gottlieb.

12. The Companion to the Bird's World (excerpt). Konrad Lorenz.

13. Development of Perceptual Mechanisms in Birds: Predispositions and Imprinting. Johan J. Bolhuis.

14. Sensory Templates in Species Specific Behaviour. Peter Marler.

15. Aspects of Learning in the Ontogeny of Bird Song: Where, From Whom, When, How Many, Which and How Accurately. Donald E. Kroodsma.

16. Motor Patterns in Development (excerpt). John C. Fentress and Peter J. McLeod.

Part IV Empirical Paradigms: Development of Behavior Systems.

17. Suckling isn't feeding, or is it? William G. Hall and Christina L. Williams.

18. Ontogeny of Social Behaviour in Burmese Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus spadiceus) (excerpt). Jaap P. Kruijit.

19. Social Deprivation in Monkeys. Harry F. Harlow and Margaret K. Harlow.

20. Mother-Infant Separation and the Nature of Inter-Individual Relationships: Experiments with Rhesus Monkeys. Robert A. Hinde.

21. Structure and Development of Behaviour Systems. Jerry A. Hogan.

Author Index.

Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

Contains 21 classic and contemporary theoretical and empirical papers (a few excerpted) on the subject of behavioral development in animals. Papers are divided into four sections: general principles of development; theoretical debates; empirical paradigms involving the development of perceptual and motor mechanisms; and empirical paradigms involving the development of behavior systems. Each paper is preceded by a brief editorial introduction. The foreword is by Patrick Bateson. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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