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" The Mind of Organisms: Some Issues About Animal Cognition "
Previde, Emanuela Prato; Colobetti, Marco; Poli, Marco; Spada, Emanuela Cenami
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AL
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935331
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LA1tt1r1pd
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English
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Previde, Emanuela Prato; Colobetti, Marco; Poli, Marco; Spada, Emanuela Cenami
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The Mind of Organisms: Some Issues About Animal Cognition [Article]\ Previde, Emanuela Prato; Colobetti, Marco; Poli, Marco; Spada, Emanuela Cenami
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International Journal of Comparative Psychology
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6/2
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1992
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The study of animal behavior and intelligence has a fairly long tradition, starting with Romanes naive mentalism. With a few noble exceptions, like Tolman and Kohler, psychological research on animals has been dominated by the behaviorist paradigm, and only in the last fifteen years has there been a substantial growth of interest in the analysis of cognitive processes in animals. This renewed impetus towards a cognitive approach, as opposed to a strict behaviorist perspective, resulted from both internal problems and external influences: on the one hand, there were difficulties in explaining all instances of behavior within the traditional S-R approach; on the other, mental concepts were gaining a new scientific respectability, thanks to the development of human cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence
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