?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Comparative+psychology&rft.creator=Verplanck%2C+W+S&rft.subject=Behavioral+Analysis&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.description=+This+chapter+was+prepared+following+a+series+of+visits+to+laboratories+and+field+stations+where+comparative+psychology+is+under+very+active+investigation.+What+has+been+observed%2C+taken+with+this+year's+publications+in+the+psychological%2C+ethological%2C+and+biological+journals%2C+and+the+chapters+of+previous+Annual+Reviews%2C+has+given+the+chapter+its+form.++The+advances+in+the+past+year+in+the+topics+usually+allocated+most+space+in+this+chapter%2C+and+that+most+psychologists+think+of+when+they+think+of+comparative+psychology+at+all+have+not+been+great.+Some+might+have+been+advances+if+they+had+appeared+when+the+experimental+work+was+completed.+Another+paper+provides+a+discussion+of+brain+weights+in+more+or+less+association+with+the+report+of+some+experiments+on+learning%3B+the+relation+established+is+one+of+simple+contiguity+in+the+pages+of+a+paper.+Little+new+appears+on+hoarding%3B+investigations+of+bird+navigation+seem+to+have+reached+an+impasse%2C+where+the+only+theory+that+seems+adequate+to+the+facts+is+untenable.+%5BFor+a+popularized+summary%2C+see+Carthy.%5D+The+quasi-monopoly+of+the+experimental+study+of+sex+behavior+in+the+male+boojum%2C+or+rat%2C+held+by+Beach+and+his+colleagues%2C+has+been+broken+with+the+appearance+of+an+excellent+monograph+by+Larrson.++The+general+picture+is+a+familiar+one%3A+advances+have+occurred%2C+but+at+glacial+pace%3B+work+on+familiar+variables+inches+along.+A+different+picture+arises%2C+however%2C+if+the+work+of+ethologists+and+zoologists+in+the+field+of+behavior+is+examined+in+its+own+context+rather+than+according+to+psychologists'+ideas+of+what+should+be+important.+Here+the+advances+in+the+last+year--in+the+last+few+years--have+been+rapid%2C+remarkable%2C+and+of+direct+relevance+to+psychologists%2C+whether+comparative%2C+experimental%2C+social%2C+or+clinical.+Ethologists%2C+mostly+European+zoologists%2C+study+the+behavior+of+a+number+of+species+from+an+objective+(in+the+Watsonian+or+Pavlovian+sense)+point+of+view+that+does+not+exclude+an+active+interest+in+physiological+correlates+of+behavior.+Previous+chapters+in+this+Annual+Review+will+have+familiarized+the+reader+with+some+of+their+work%2C+but+they+have+placed%2C+I+think%2C+undue+stress+on+a+few+sets+of+investigations+and+misleadingly+emphasized+some+now+obsolete+parts+of+ethological+theorizing.+What+follows+is+based+not+only+on+the+current+publications+of+ethologists%2C+but+also+on+visits+to+their+laboratories%2C+and+on+many+and+long+discussions+with+them.&rft.date=1958&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F605%2F1%2Fbiblio28.html&rft.identifier=++Verplanck%2C+W+S++(1958)+Comparative+psychology.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F605%2F