The thinking rat: The new science of animal learning

by Oskar Pineo and Oskar Pineño

Book Overview

For more than a century, the albino rat has been the standard subject in psychological research. Among other reasons, the rat was thought to be the perfect animal model of human behavior due to the presumed simplicity of its behavior, considered to be mechanistically controlled by the environment and, thus, free from the unnecessary complication caused by the influence of mental processes. In the last few years, a series of critical experiments have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1450580424
• ISBN13: 9781450580427
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"