Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• PART I Social Learning: Theoretical and Methodological Issues 1
• 1: Imitation in Animals: History, Definition, and Interpretation of Data from the Psychological Laboratory 3
• CONCLUSIONS 23
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 24
• REFERENCES 24
• 2: An Evolutionary Model of Social Learning: The Effects of Spatial and Temporal Variation 29
• APPENDIX 2 47
• PART II Social Influences on Avoidance Learning 49
• 3: Social Learning and the Acquisition of Snake Fear in Monkeys 51
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 70
• REFERENCES 70
• 4: Cultural Transmission of Enemy Recognition by Birds 75
• CONCLUSIONS 91
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 95
• REFERENCES 95
• 5: Direct and Observational Learning by Redwinged Blackbirds (Agelaius Phoeniceus): The Importance of Complex Visual Stimuli 99
• SUMMARY 113
• REFERENCES 114
• PART III Social Influences on Foraging and Feeding 117
• 6: Communication of Information Concerning Distant Diets in a Social, Central-Place Foraging Species: Rattus norvegicus 119
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 138
• REFERENCES 138
• 7: Mechanisms, Ecology, and Population Diffusion of Socially Learned, Food-Finding Behavior in Feral Pigeons 141
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 157
• REFERENCES 157
• 8: Social Learning About Food by Humans 165
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 183
• REFERENCES 183
• PART IV Social Learning of Arbitrary Responses 189
• 9: Experimentally Manipulated Imitative Behavior in Rats and Pigeons 191
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 205
• REFERENCES 205
• 10: Learning in the Rat of a Choice Response by Observation of S-S Contingencies 207
• CONCLUDING REMARKS 221
• REFERENCES 222
• 11: Learned Imitation by Pigeons 225
• SUMMARY 236
• REFERENCES 237
• 12: Culture and Genetics in the House Mouse 239
• PART V Social Influences on Communication 253
• 13: The Role of Social Factors in White-Crowned Sparrow Song Development 255
• CONCLUSIONS 272
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 273
• REFERENCES 273
• 14: The Importance of Social Interaction and Observation in the Acquisition of Communicative Competence: Possible Parallels Between Avian and Human Learning 279
• CONCLUSIONS 292
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 292
• REFERENCES 292
• 15: Infants' Imitation of Novel and Familiar Behaviors 301
• 16: The Human Infant as Homo Imitans 319
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 340
• REFERENCES 340
• Author Index 343
• Subject Index 353

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