The animal mind [Elektronisk resurs] : a text-book of comparative psychology / by Margaret Floy Washburn ...

• "Again the accumulation of material during a nine-year period has made necessary the rewriting of a large portion of this book. Particularly noteworthy in the last five years have been the German contributions, especially those thorough experimental studies of sensory discrimination published in the new Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie. The work of the Amsterdam laboratory of physiology is also a welcome addition to our resources. In the present edition of "The Animal Mind," the chapters dealing with sensory discriminations and with the tropism, besides incorporating the new material, have been thoroughly reorganized so as to give, it is hoped, a much clearer survey of the complex mass of data they present, and thus to make them more readable. The treatment of perception has been considerably changed, and takes account of the work of the configurationists in the field of animal psychology. The treatment of learning enters more fully into theoretical considerations than was the case in the earlier editions, and presents a new theory of the nature of the drive. A new final chapter summarizes the factors which influence the nature of the animal mind at various levels of development"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). 

Ämnesord

Psychology, Comparative.  (LCSH)

Animal intelligence.  (LCSH)

Psychology, Comparative  (MeSH)

Klassifikation

QL785 (LCC)