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Pavlovian conditioning as a product of selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

William J. Rowland
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 rowland@indiana.ed www.indiana.edu/~animal/research/rowland.html

Abstract

Biologists recognize Pavlovian conditioning as a mechanism by which individuals can adaptively modify their social and nonsocial behavior quickly to relevant features of the natural environment. This commentary supports Domjan et al.'s point that psychologists could gain important insights by broadening the range of species and behaviors they study and by continuing to adopt a functional perspective to investigate Pavlovian conditioning and other forms of learning.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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