Introduction Comparative psychology

By T. Malim, A. Birch. 1998

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Concepts of Trait and Personality (2012, background): “Twenty-four years ago Morgan (26) stated his belief that " character " evolves into a pattern " determined by the intrinsic laws of mind, just as a crystal is evolved along lines which are determined by the intrinsic laws of crystallization."”
Artificial Life (2019, background): “The major variants are genetic algorithms [40] usually operating on classifier systems [45] and evolution strategies [103].”
The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness (2005, background): “For a period of at least a few years, children may have what Katherine Nelson (1984) has called a “general undifferentiated knowledge base,” perhaps even at the age of 4 years.”
Anthropomorphism as Cognitive Bias (2017, methodology): “Perhaps the most commonly advocated method of addressing anthropomorphism is an updated version of Morgan’s Canon, a famous statement by the 19th century comparative psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan (1894). The modern interpretation of Morgan’s Canon councils that researchers should adopt the model that”
The evolution of learning (2004, background): “…conditioning before Pavlov (Morgan, 1894, pp. 86, 89), Thorndikian conditioning before Thorndike (Morgan, 1896, p. 22), taste aversions before Garcia (Morgan, 1894, pp. 85, 90, 287; Morgan, 1896, pp. 150–151), and observational conditioning before anyone else (Morgan, 1896, pp. 118–119, 164).”
What can we learn from studies of insect navigation (2012, background): “(Morgan 1903, page 59) It is hard to apply Morgan’s Canon formally in modern science because of the near impossibility of developing watertight definitions of higher and lower psychological processes.”
On seeing human: a three-factor theory of anthropomorphism. (2007, background): “Most existing research therefore addresses the actual mental states and abilities of nonhuman agents by detailing the extent to which these agents really are humanlike and the extent to which anthropomorphism represents accurate insight versus fanciful illusion (e.g., Cheney & Seyfarth, 1990; Hauser”