Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior - Hardcover

J.E.R. Staddon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0126626502 ISBN 13: 9780126626506

Publisher: Academic Press, 1980

Synopsis

Limits to The Allocation of Individual Behavior presents the ideas and methods in the study of how individual organisms allocate their limited time and energy and the consequences of such allocation.The book is a survey of individual resource allocation, emphasizing the relationships of the concepts of utility, reinforcement, and Darwinian fitness. The chapters are arranged beginning with plants and general evolutionary considerations, through animal behavior in nature and laboratory, and ending with human behavior in suburb and institution. Topics discussed include operant conditioning; the principle of diminishing returns; and issues in relation to mating strategies.Biologists, sociologists, economists, and psychologists will find the book interesting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0126626502
• ISBN 13: 9780126626506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308