The case for a cognitive approach to animal learning and behavior

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 65-78

  Zentall, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Cognitive behaviorism; Common representations; Functional equivalence; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; LEARNING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORISM; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOG; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; SUGGESTION;

EID: 0035799538     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(01)00150-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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