Limits to Action
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Limits to Action

The Allocation of Individual Behavior

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Limits to Action

The Allocation of Individual Behavior

About this book

Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior presents the ideas and methods in the study of how individual organisms allocate their limited time and energy and the consequences of such allocation. The book is a survey of individual resource allocation, emphasizing the relationships of the concepts of utility, reinforcement, and Darwinian fitness. The chapters are arranged beginning with plants and general evolutionary considerations, through animal behavior in nature and laboratory, and ending with human behavior in suburb and institution. Topics discussed include operant conditioning; the principle of diminishing returns; and issues in relation to mating strategies. Biologists, sociologists, economists, and psychologists will find the book interesting.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780126626506
eBook ISBN
9781483276540
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Developmental Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1. Concepts of Resource Allocation and Partitioning in Plants
  10. CHAPTER 2. On Uncertainty and the Law of Diminishing Returns in Evolution and Behavior
  11. CHAPTER 3. On the Evolution of Alternative Mating Strategies
  12. CHAPTER 4. Optimality Analyses of Operant Behavior and Their Relation to Optimal Foraging
  13. CHAPTER 5. Melioration and Behavioral Allocation
  14. CHAPTER 6. Behavioral Resilience and Its Relation to Demand Functions
  15. Chapter 7. Economics and Behavioral Psychology
  16. CHAPTER 8. Consumer Demand Theory Applied to Choice Behavior of Rats
  17. CHAPTER 9. Behavioral Economics, Token Economies, and Applied Behavior Analysis
  18. Index