Curiosity and information seeking in animal and human behavior
By: Wojciech Pisula.
Publisher: Brown Walker Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781599424989
Subjects: Curiosity; Information behavior; Psychology, Comparative
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and short history of research within animal psychology; title: Remarks on the methods: the four "whys"; title: The emergence of novelty and information seeking; title: Phylogenetic development of exploratory activity; title: Comparative analysis of exploration and play; title: The neophobia and neophilia: two sides of the coin?; title: The main difficulty: motivation; title: Elements of novelty seeking neurobiology; title: Adaptive function of information seeking; title: Levels of organization of information seeking behavior and related phenomena; title: Human curiosity.