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comparative psychology

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comparative psychology
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(Psychology) the study of the similarities and differences in the behaviour of different species
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Noun1.comparative psychology - the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals
psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life


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As a comparative psychologist working in this framework, I have argued that comparative psychology is less about earthworms, gerbils, and monkeys than it is about all of psychology--a general psychology, if you will (Greenberg & Haraway, 2002).
He introduces radical behaviorism as a philosophy of science, including treating behavior as a subject matter in its own right, then describes the foundations of radical behaviorism from 1800-1930, including the contribution of post-Darwinian comparative psychology, and then the second phase of the movement and the contributions of Skinner.
INTRODUCTION For the past 10 years the first author has been regularly visiting the northeast of Brazil as part of an on-going investigation into the comparative psychology of Africanized honey bees (1),(2).
 
 
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