comparative psychology

collocation in English

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comparative
adjective
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/kəmˈpær.ə.tɪv/us
/kəmˈper.ə.t̬ɪv/
comparing ...
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psychology
noun[U]
uk
/saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/saɪˈkɑː.lə.dʒi/
the scientific study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behaviour, or the influence of a particular person's character on their ...
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Given that fact, the structural problem early theorists had with this response makes it intriguing regarding acomparativepsychologyof uncertainty monitoring.
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We consider the present status and future prospects of this area ofcomparativepsychology.
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Comparativepsychologycame to be seen as concentrated on the study of learning, even though much other research was under way at the time.
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Doing so is truecomparativepsychology, and it can lead to rapid theoretical progress.
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Second, we discuss potential contributions from acomparativepsychologyof metacognition.
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Similar work has been done in neurophysiology andcomparativepsychologyconcerning universals in aesthetic appreciation.
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Despite active research by a bevy of comparative psychologists,comparativepsychologyappeared stagnant, while ethology emerged as a successful approach gaining many adherents.
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Evidence is brought to bear on this proposition fromcomparativepsychology, early child development, neuropsychology, and abnormal behavior.
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Corballis argues for a new evolutionary scenario on the basis of evidence from palaeontology,comparativepsychology, and behavioural neuroscience.
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Incomparativepsychologyand ethology, misinterpreting a behavior as homologous is avoided by examining phylogeny, carefully testing adaptation, and by closely exploring the underlying mechanisms controlling a behavior.
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For another, the discipline ofcomparativepsychology, with a few notable exceptions, is nearly dead - we don't have a vibrant program of research exploring phyletic differences in cognition.
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Comparativepsychology, therefore, assumes a more prominent role in evolutionary storytelling.
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Incomparativepsychology, if two or more related species perform the same or very similar behavior, an inference about the evolution of that behavior can often be made.
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Behavioral ecology in the 1970s gave a more solid base of knowledge against which a truecomparativepsychologycould develop.
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It has developed out ofcomparativepsychology, but has also been strongly influenced by the approach of ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology.
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Research on this involvedcomparativepsychology, developmental psychology, robotics, and cognitive modelling, all integrated within one programme.
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These studies draw on the tenets ofcomparativepsychology, where the main goal is to discover analogs to human behavior in experimentally-tractable non-human animals.
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Comparativepsychologyis sometimes assumed to emphasize cross-species comparisons, including those between humans and animals.
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Thus,comparativepsychologyand animal cognition are heavily overlapping research categories.
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The behavior and mental processes, both human and non-human, can be described through animal cognition, ethology, evolutionary psychology, andcomparativepsychologyas well.
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