John Pearce 1

John Pearce 1

1. Why Study Animal Intelligence?

   • Natural Curisoity
   • Relevance to other disciplines
     • Human Cognitive Psychology
     • Behavioural Neuroscience
   • Animal Welfare

2. Historical Background

   • Darwin (1859)
   • Romanes (1880s)
   • Lloyd Morgan (1890s)
   • Thorndike (1874 – 1949)
     • Law of Effect
   • John B Watson (1878-1958)
   • Burrhus Frederick Skinner (1904-1990)
     • Opperant
   • Pavolov (1849-1936
     • Acquisition
     • Extinction
     • Spontaneous recovery
     • Stimulus generalisation
     • RACHMAN (1966)

3. Chapter 1

   • Phylogenetic scale
   • Tree Structures of Intelligence
   • Cephalization Index
     • NAKAJIMA et al (2002)
   • Defining Animal Intelligence
     • Adaptability
       • Barnett (1970) "Intelligence here means the ability to adapt behaviour to circumstances"
     • Learning
       • SKARD (1950)
       • Taste Aversion Conditioning
         • GARCIA & KOELLING (1966)
       • Contextual Variables
     • Information Processing
   • Methods
     • Physiological Techniques
       • THOMPSON (1986)
     • Unobservable Techniques
       • Assumes that an animal brain constructs a perceptual world that corresponds to its environment (JERISON, 1973)
         • Must be inferred from it's behaviour
   • Stimulus Resonse
     • HULL (1943)
     • GUTHRIE (1935)
     • TOLMAN (1948)

4. Animal Memory

   • VANDER WALL (1982)
   • FAGOT & COOK (2006)
   • VAUGHAN & GREENE (1984)
   • PILLEY & REID (2011)
   • Time/interval
     • CHURCH & DELUTLY (1977)
   • Numbers
     • PFUNGST (1908)
     • MECK & CHURCH (1983)
     • PEPPERBERG (1994)
   • Categories
     • HERRNSTEIN et al. (1976)
     • WATANABE (1995)

5. Conditions of Associative Learning

   • KAMIN (1969)
     • Surpise
     • Attention
   • Associative Learning
     • Opperant
     • Classical
   • Observational conditioning
     • MINEKA & COOK (1988)
   • Contiguity

6. Theories of Attention

   • WAGNER
   • MACKINTOSH
   • PEARCE & HALL
     • PEARCE & HALL (1984)

7. Chapter 2

   • Excitatory
     • Eye-blink
       • MOORE (1972)
     • Autoshaping
     • Conditioned supression
     • Taste Aversion
     • Neural Model
       • CAREW et al (1983)
         • Alpha Conditioning
           • HAWKINS et al (1983)
           • Stimulus Generalisation
     • Nature of US Representations
       • Specific
       • Affective
         • Appetitive
         • Aversive
         • HOLLAND (1990)
         • KAMIN (1969)
           • Blocking
             • GANESAN & PEARCE (1988)
   • Inhibitory
     • HEARST & FRANKLIN (1977)
     • Retardation Test
     • Summation Test
     • Nature of US Representations
       • KONORNSKI (1967)
   • Control Groups
     • SHEAFOR (1975)
     • Truly Random Control
   • Memory Model
     • COLWILL & MOTZKIN (1994)
     • HOLLAND (1990)
     • HOLLAND (1981)
   • Stimulus-Stimulus Learning
     • Serial Conditioning
       • HOLLAND & ROSS (1981)
     • Sensory Preconditioning
       • RIZLEY & RESCORLA (1972)
     • Second-Order/Higher-Order Conditioning
       • RASHOTTE et al (1977)
         • RIZLEY & RESCORLA (1972)
           • Rescorla (1980) "Similarity of CS1 and CS2"

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