Research Catalog

Title

Purposive behavior in animals and men.

Author

Tolman, Edward Chace, 1886-1959.

Publication

New York, Century [©1932]

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Details

Description

xiv, 463 pages illustrations.

Series Statement

Century psychology series

Uniform Title

Century psychology series.

Subject

• Psychology
• Behaviorism (Psychology)
• Psychology, Comparative
• Animal intelligence
• Behaviorism
• Psychology
• Psychology, Comparative
• psychology
• Animal intelligence
• Verhaltensforschung
• Gedrag
• Motivatie
• Comparative psychology

Bibliography (note)

• "References" at end of each chapter.

Contents

Behavior, a molar phenomenon -- Demands and means-end-readiness -- Demands for goal-objects -- Expectations of goal-objects and means-objects -- Discrimination and manipulanda -- Expectations of means-end-relations -- Means-end-distances -- Spatial direction and spatial hierarchies -- Mnemonization, perception, inference, sign-gestalt-expectations -- Learning and delayed reaction -- Inference: the means-end-field -- Means-end-capacities -- Conscious awareness and ideation -- Inventive ideation -- Speech and introspection -- Sensation and images -- Feeling and emotion -- Appetites and aversions -- Second -- order drives: personality-mechanisms -- Instinct, chain appetites and aversions, skills -- The nature and laws of learning-the conditions reflex doctrine -- The nature of learning: the trial and error doctrine -- The nature of learning: the doctrine of purposive behaviorism -- The final variables of purposive behaviorism -- Summary and conclusion.

LCCN

32002139

OCLC

• ocm01279570
• 1279570
• SCSB-294597

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library