Control and development of behavior ; an historical sample from the pens of ethologists /
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Reading, Mass. :
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.,
[1972]
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Table of Contents:
- How is behavior controlled? Control of sensory stimuli: the "innate releasing mechanism." On the stimulus situation releasing the begging response in the newly-hatched herring gull chick (Larus a, argentatus Pont), by N. Tinbergen and A. C. Perdeck. Further consideration of the external stimuli, by N. Tinbergen. Interrelationships of the "innate" and the "acquired" in instinctive behavior, by T. C. Schneiria. Ontogeny of an instinct, by J. P. Hallman,--Displacement activities and drives. Reciprocal exchange between instincts, by A. Kortlandt. "Displacement reactions" in the three-spined stickleback, by N. Tinbergen and J. J. van Iersel. Some comments on conflict and thwarting in animals, by M. Bastock, D. Morris and M. Moynihan. The activation of an instinct caused by a "transitional action," by H. Lind. On the functional organisation of drives, by E. von Holst and U. von St. Paul, translated by J. E. Burchard, Jr.