Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-386) and index.
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Theoretical behaviorist : John E.R. Staddon / Nancy K. Innis -- Making analogies work : a selectionist model of choice behavior / Armando Machado, Richard Keen and Eric Macaux -- Variation and selection in response structures / Alliston K. Reid, Rebecca Dixon and Stephen Gray -- Control of response variability : call and pecking location in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) / Kazuchika Manabe -- Rules of thumb for choice behavior in pigeons / J.M. Cleaveland -- Choice and memory / Daniel T. Cerutti -- The spatial memory of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) : durability, interference, and response biases / Robert H.I. Dale -- Interval timing and memory : breaking the clock / Jennifer J. Higa -- Learning mechanisms in multiple-time-scale theory / Mircea I. Chelaru and Mandar S. Jog -- Mechanisms of adaptive behavior : beyond the usual suspects / Valentin Dragoi -- Varieties of the behaviorist experience : histories of John E.R. Staddon / Clive D.L. Wynne -- Santayana told us, or the prevalence of radical behaviorism / John C. Malone and Susan R. Perry -- The end of psychology : what can we expect at the limits of inquiry? / John M. Horner -- Reflections on I-O psychology and behaviorism / John E. Kello -- A new paradigm for the integration of the social sciences / Giulio Bolacchi.
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J.E.R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research. John Staddon has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. He did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his doctoral work with B.F. Skinner), but his work can be characterized as theoretical behaviorism. Staddon, now at Duke University, believes that experimental analysis is never enough to make sense of behavior and that "theoretical imagination" is also required. Staddon's theoretical imagination has distinguished his work over the years and has influenced the field. Staddon is not afraid to deviate from the norm: when psychologists were maintaining their distance from behavioral psychology, Staddon was promoting optimality theories. Optimality theories in psychology are now commonplace. In this volume, Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss topics that have been important in his work: behavioral ability and choice, memory, time and models (the subject of his work at Harvard), and behaviorism. They also reflect on Staddon's influence on their own work and the evolution of their thinking on these topics. ContributorsGiulio Bolacchi, Daniel T. Cerutti, Mircea Ioan Chelaru, J. Mark Cleaveland, Robert H.I. Dale, Rebecca A. Dixon, Valentin Dragoi, Stephen Gray, Jennifer J. Higa, John M. Horner, Nancy K. Innis, Mandar S. Jog, Richard Keen, John E. Kello, Eric Macaux, Armando Machado, John C. Malone, Jr., Kazuchika Manabe, Susan R. Perry, Alliston K. Reid
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