Adaptive Behavior and Learning

Abstract

Preface 1. The evolution, development and modification of behaviour 2. Variation and selection of behaviour 3. Direct orientation and feedback 4. Operant behaviour 5. Reward and punishment 6. Feeding regulation: a model motivational system 7. The optimal allocation of behaviour 8. Choice and decision rules 9. Foraging and behavioural ecology 10. Stimulus control and cognition 11. Stimulus control and performance 12. Memory and temporal control 13. Learning I: the acquisition of knowledge 14. Learning II: the guidance of action References Indexes.