Title: Learning and instinct in animals.
Authors: Thorpe, W. H. 1902-1986
Publisher: Methuen
Year: 1963
Subjects: Learning in animals; Animal intelligence; Behavior, Animal; Instinct; Learning
Contents: Directiveness and purposiveness -- The nature of drive and its place in the theory of instinct -- Habituation -- Associative learning: conditioning and trial-and-error -- Latent learning and insight learning and their relation to trial-and-error -- The evidence for insight learning and insight -- Insight and perception -- The mechanisms of learning -- Protozoa and lower Metazoa -- Worms and Molluscs -- Arthropods -- Fish -- Amphibians and reptiles -- Birds -- Mammals.