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" Curiosity and information seeking in animal and human behavior / "
Wojciech Pisula.
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BL
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566289
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b395508
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| Main Entry
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Pisula, Wojciech,1965-
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Curiosity and information seeking in animal and human behavior /\ Wojciech Pisula.
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Boca Raton :: Brown Walker Press,, c2009.
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147 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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9781599424989 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1599424983 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-147).
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| Contents
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Introduction and short history of research within animal psychology -- Remarks on the methods: the four "whys" -- The emergence of novelty and information seeking -- Phylogenetic development of exploratory activity -- Comparative analysis of exploration and play -- The neophobia and neophilia: two sides of the coin? -- The main difficulty: motivation -- Elements of novelty seeking neurobiology -- Adaptive function of information seeking -- Levels of organization of information seeking behavior and related phenomena -- Human curiosity.
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Curiosity.
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Information behavior.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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| Dewey Classification
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156/.3
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BF323.C8P57 2009
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