Animal Learning, Ethology, and Biological Constraints

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The Psychology of Animal Learning

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Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men

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Stochastic models for learning.

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Behavior Theory and Conditioning

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Predictability, surprise, attention, and conditioning

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Method and Theory in Experimental Psychology

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Inhibition and Learning

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An Introduction to Social Psychology

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Reinforcement, expectancy, and learning.

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The Logic of Modern Physics

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Theories of Learning

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The Snark was a Boojum.

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Food Aversion Learning

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The Principles of Psychology

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ON GOING BACK TO NATURE: A REVIEW OF SELIGMAN AND HAGER'S BIOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES OF LEARNING¹

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Experimental Study of the Mental Processes of the Rat. II

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THE MAINTENANCE OF KEY PECKING BY STIMULUS-CONTINGENT AND RESPONSE-INDEPENDENT FOOD PRESENTATION

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Instinct

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Giving up Instincts in Psychology

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Habit and Instinct

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SERIAL LEARNING IN THE PIGEON

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Second-order conditioning of the pigeon’s keypeck

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Pavlovian Conditioning with Heat Reinforcement Produces Stimulus-Directed Pecking in Chicks

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Long delay learning in the T-maze

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Blocking of a taste aversion by prior pairings of exteroceptive stimuli with illness

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Psychopathology in animals. Research and clinical implications.

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Twentieth Century Psychology

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Second-order appetitive conditioning in goldfish.

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Psychopathology in animals : research and clinical implications

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The cerebral cortex and the internal organs

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The animal mind

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Preface: Boulder Symposium on Behavioral Pharmacogenetics

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The Ontogeny of Behavior

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