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Evelyn Satinoff
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA
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Philip Teitelbaum
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Underlying Activational Systems
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- Philip Teitelbaum, Timothy Schallert, Ian Q. Whishaw
Pages 23-65
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- Dennis J. McGinty, Jerome M. Siegel
Pages 105-181
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Ethological Perspectives
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Front Matter
Pages 183-183
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Homeostasis
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Front Matter
Pages 263-263
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Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives
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Front Matter
Pages 425-425
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- George H. Collier, Carolyn K. Rovee-Collier
Pages 427-441
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Social Interactions
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Front Matter
Pages 473-473
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- Norman T. Adler, Theresa O. Allen
Pages 475-509
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- J. W. Renfrew, R. R. Hutchinson
Pages 511-541
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- Stephen J. Suomi, Susan Mineka, Harry F. Harlow
Pages 543-583
About this book
Motivation addresses a central problem in psychology: Why does an animal's behavior fluctuate in the face of an unaltered environment? In a sense this is the opposite of the question from which work on motivation began, and for which Claude Bernard invented the concept of the fixity of the internal milieu: How does an animal maintain constancy in the face of a fluctuating environment? Dealing with motivation has become extremely complex as new experiments, phenomena, and theories have extended the concept. This book embodies some of the ways in which work on motivation is currently proceeding. One of the major changes has been the recognition that motivation cannot be explained without an understanding of the biological rhythms and activational systems that underlie behavior. Another is that ecological and evolutionary perspectives add enormously to answering the central problem of why an animal does what it does when it does. The book suffers from several omissions. There is no chapter on the devel opment of motivated behavior. There is none on reward systems in the brain, owing to the untimely death of James Olds, whose contribution would have enriched this book appreciably, and to whom we dedicate it. EVELYN SATINOFF PHILIP TEITELBAUM Vll Contents PART I UNDERLYING ACTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS CHAPTER 1 Motivation, Biological Clocks, and Temporal Organization of Behavior 3 Irving Zucker Reactivity to External Stimuli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Reactivity to Interoceptive Stimuli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Sources of Biological Rhythmicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Rhythm Generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . Rhythm Synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . Consequences of Rhythm Desynchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . .
