Animal Cognition: Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology - Image 1

£45.68

Harvard University Press Animal Cognition: Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology

Name: Animal Cognition: Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology
Brand: Harvard University Press
Price: 45.68 GBP
Availability: InStock

Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 3 months ago.

£46 today · all-time low £46 (Mar 2026) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 38 days • 38 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 38 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £46 (38 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £46 - £46

Price levels: 1 different prices over 38 days

Description

Animal Cognition presents a clear, concise, and comprehensive overview of what we know about cognitive processes in animals. Focusing mainly on what has been learned from experimental research, Vauclair presents a wide-ranging review of studies of many kinds of animals--bees and wasps, cats and dogs, dolphins and sea otters, pigeons and titmice, baboons, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys, and Japanese macaques. He also offers a novel discussion of the ways Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Piagetian concepts may be used to develop models for the study of animal cognition. Individual chapters review the current state of our knowledge about specific kinds of cognition in animals: tool use and spatial and temporal representations; social cognition--how animals manage their relational life and the cognitive organization that sustains social behaviors; representation, communication, and language; and imitation, self-recognition, and the theory of mind--what animals know about themselves. The book closes with Vauclair's "agenda for comparative cognition." Here he examines the relationship of the experimental approach to other fields and methods of inquiry, such as cognitive ethology and the ecological approach to species comparisons. It is here, too, that Vauclair addresses the key issue of continuity, or its absence, between animal and human cognition. Given our still limited knowledge of cognitive systems in animals, Vauclair argues, researchers should be less concerned with the "why" question--the evolutionary or ecological explanations for differences in cognition between the species--and more concerned with the "what"--the careful work that is needed to increase our understanding of similarities and differences in cognitive processes. This thoughtful and lively book will be of great value to students of animal behavior and to anyone who desires a better understanding of humankind's relations to other living creatures.

Key Features

Used Book in Good Condition

Product Specifications

Brand: Harvard University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0674037030
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Cognition & Cognitive Psychology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 August 1996
Listed Since: 13 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Harvard University Press Animal Cognition: Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 3 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction

Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition

Principles of Animal Cognition

Comparative Cognition: Commonalities and Diversity

Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology

Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition

Cognitive Ethology: Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin (Comparative Cognition and Neuroscience Series)

Fundamentals of Cognitive Science: Minds, Brain, Magic, and Evolution

Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Children, And Other Species Can Teach Us (Social Cognition And Social Neuroscience)

Cognition

The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition

Animal Cognition: Evolution, Behavior and Cognition

The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Cognitive Processes: 2

The Handbook of Culture and Biology

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Conceptual Issues

Foundations of Cognitive Architectures (Premium Color Edition): Interdisciplinary Models of Cognition for Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive Computation & Engineering Series)

Applied Cognitive Psychology: A Textbook (Challenges and Controversies in Applied Cognition Series)

Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior

Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition: A Comparative Guide