- Title Pages
- Current Perspectives in Psychology
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Adaptation -
3 Sculpting of Tendencies -
4 Learning, the Foundation of Intelligence -
5 Limitations of Respondents and Operants -
6 First Lessons from Primates -
7 Primate Research at the San Diego Zoo -
8 Interesting Events at the San Diego Zoo -
9 The LANA Project, 1971 -
10 The Assembling of Language -
11 Kanzi! -
12 Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers -
13 When Emergents Just Don't Emerge -
14 Animals Count -
15 Brain Business -
16 Processes Basic to Learning and Reinforcement -
17 Harlow's Bridge to Rational Behaviors -
18 Rational Behaviorism -
19 Overview and Perspective - Epilogue
- References
- Recommended Reading
- Index
Adaptation
Adaptation
- Chapter:
- (p.21) 2 Adaptation
- Source:
- Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings
- Author(s):
Duane M. Rumbaugh
David A. Washburn
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
Adaptation refers to survival and high reproductive success of species and generally entails competent behavior so that the organism can survive in changing environment conditions. In this chapter, the behavioral adaptations of animals are discussed. It highlights biological smartness, which refers to behaviors that are highly adaptive, but dictated primarily by genetics.
Keywords: adaptation, survival, reproductive success, competent behavior, behavioral adpatations, biological smartness, genetics
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- Title Pages
- Current Perspectives in Psychology
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Adaptation -
3 Sculpting of Tendencies -
4 Learning, the Foundation of Intelligence -
5 Limitations of Respondents and Operants -
6 First Lessons from Primates -
7 Primate Research at the San Diego Zoo -
8 Interesting Events at the San Diego Zoo -
9 The LANA Project, 1971 -
10 The Assembling of Language -
11 Kanzi! -
12 Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers -
13 When Emergents Just Don't Emerge -
14 Animals Count -
15 Brain Business -
16 Processes Basic to Learning and Reinforcement -
17 Harlow's Bridge to Rational Behaviors -
18 Rational Behaviorism -
19 Overview and Perspective - Epilogue
- References
- Recommended Reading
- Index
