The Mathematics of Behavior

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Cambridge University Press, Oct 30, 2006 - Psychology
Mathematical thinking provides a clear, crisp way of defining problems. Our whole technology is based on it. What is less appreciated is that mathematical thinking can also be applied to problems in the social and behavioral sciences. This book illustrates how mathematics can be used to understand human and animal behavior, using examples in psychology, sociology, economics, ecology, and even marriage counseling.
 

Contents

Section 1
7
Section 2
10
Section 3
18
Section 4
42
Section 5
49
Section 6
67
Section 7
104
Section 8
108
Section 10
132
Section 11
176
Section 12
216
Section 13
231
Section 14
259
Section 15
264
Section 16
291
Section 17
325

Section 9
127

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Earl Hunt is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has written many articles and chapters in contributed volumes and was the past editor of Cognitive Psychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology. His books include Concept Learning: An Information Processing Problem (Wiley), Experiments in Induction (Academic Press), Artificial Intelligence (Academic Press), and Will We Be Smart Enough? (Sage Foundation) which won the William James Prize from the American Psychological Association in 1996. His most recent book is Thoughts on Thought (Erlbaum, 2002).

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