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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
Short of inventing a time machine, we will never see our extinct
forebears in action and be able to determine directly how human
behaviour and culture has developed. However, we can learn from our
closest living relatives, the African great apes. The Cultured
Chimpanzee explores the astonishing variation in chimpanzee
behavior across their range, which cannot be explained by
individual learning, genetic or environmental influences. It
promotes the view that this rich diversity in social life and
material culture reflects social learning of traditions, and more
closely resembles cultural variety in humans than the simpler
behavior of other animal species. This stimulating book shows that
the field of cultural primatology may therefore help us to
reconstruct the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens from earlier
forms, and that it is essential for anthropologists, archaeologists
and zoologists to work together to develop a stronger understanding
of human and primate cultural evolution. ?? First book to provide a
synthetic analysis of chimpanzee culture, covering both material
and social culture ?? Models the origins and evolution of human
culture using our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees ?? A
significant and stimulating book which examines how anthropology,
animal behavior and psychology must come together to truly
understand the basis for human and animal culture
Biting is one of the most common - and most upsetting - toddler
behaviours. Understand how to respond to the child who bit and the
child who was bitten. Importantly, learn how to prevent biting in
the future with this behaviour wheel: Why Toddlers Bite. What
Happened Before the Bite. What Happened After the Bite. How to
Create a Prevention Plan. How to respond to a Bite in the Moment.
The package includes 10 bilingual (English and Spanish) wheels.
This book provides a solution to the ecological inference
problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over
seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer
individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data? In
political science, this question arises when individual-level
surveys are unavailable (for instance, local or comparative
electoral politics), unreliable (racial politics), insufficient
(political geography), or infeasible (political history). This
ecological inference problem also confronts researchers in numerous
areas of major significance in public policy, and other academic
disciplines, ranging from epidemiology and marketing to sociology
and quantitative history. Although many have attempted to make such
cross-level inferences, scholars agree that all existing methods
yield very inaccurate conclusions about the world. In this volume,
Gary King lays out a unique--and reliable--solution to this
venerable problem.
King begins with a qualitative overview, readable even by those
without a statistical background. He then unifies the apparently
diverse findings in the methodological literature, so that only one
aggregation problem remains to be solved. He then presents his
solution, as well as empirical evaluations of the solution that
include over 16,000 comparisons of his estimates from real
aggregate data to the known individual-level answer. The method
works in practice.
King's solution to the ecological inference problem will enable
empirical researchers to investigate substantive questions that
have heretofore proved unanswerable, and move forward fields of
inquiry in which progress has been stifled by this problem.
Award-winning science writer Steven Mithen explores how an
understanding of our ancestors and their development can illuminate
our brains and behaviour today How do our minds work? When did
language and religious beliefs first emerge? Why was there a
cultural explosion of art and creativity with the arrival of modern
humans? This ground-breaking book brings the insight of archaeology
to our understanding of the development and history of the human
mind, combining them with ideas from evolutionary psychology in a
brilliant and provocative synthesis.
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