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APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology

Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Methods, Neural Substrate, and Behavior Volume 2: Perception, Learning, and Cognition

Josep Call editor

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:American Psychological Association

Published:16th Jan '17

Should be back in stock very soon

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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.

The real potential from collaborative and cross-disciplinary thinking that comparative psychology can engender is only just beginning to be realized. This book will do much to push it forward to the benefit of both the human and nonhuman species. I thoroughly recommend this book to all, for university libraries, or your own. You will not regret it.

* PsycCRITIQUES *

All articles are extensively researched, detailed, well written, and thoroughly documented…. These two volumes will serve as excellent additions to general and comparative psychology collections.

* Choi

ISBN: 9781433823480

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1856 pages