How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 754, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kline, Michelle Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperation; cultural transmission; evolution; pedagogy; teaching; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; THEORY OF MIND; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL SOCIETY; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; DONOR; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE REPLICATION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULUS; TAXONOMY; TEACHER; TEAMWORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEACHING; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84938093858     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X14000090     Document Type: Review

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