Behavior of Nonhuman Primates
Modern Research Trends
- 1st Edition, Volume 4 - January 1, 1971
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Allan M. Schrier, Fred Stollnitz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 6 3 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 5 9 7 4 - 1
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Request a sales quoteBehavior of Nonhuman Primates: Modern Research Trends, Volume 4 provides information pertinent to research on behavior of nonhuman primates. This book presents a systematic investigation of memory processes in animals. Organized into four chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the implication of the obvious similarity of monkeys and humans in interproblem learning. This text then presents a series of investigations of the retention of object-discrimination learning by learning-set-experienced rhesus monkeys. Other chapters consider the capability of chimpanzees to handle at least rudimentary stages of certain higher mental functions. This book discusses as well the communicative behavior of animals, which is similar to the rest of animal behavior in that it is governed by general perceptual, motor, motivational, and associative laws. The final chapter deals with the main accomplishments of a program designed to teach language to a chimpanzee. This book is a valuable resource for students and research workers.
List of Contributors
Preface
Contents of Previous Volumes
Chapter 1 Retention of Discriminations and an Analysis of Learning Set
I. Introduction
II. Experiments on Retention
III. General Discussion
IV. Summary
References
Chapter 2 Higher Mental Functions of a Home-Raised Chimpanzee
I. Introduction
II. The Education of a Chimpanzee
III. Instrumentation and Manipulation Problems
IV. Number Perception
V. Concept-Handling Ability
VI. Sequence Learning
Vn. Communication
VIII. Summary
References
Chapter 3 Two-Way Communication with an Infant Chimpanzee
I. Introduction
II. The Medium of Communication
III. The Experimental Subject
IV. Laboratory Conditions
V. Teaching
VI. Vocabulary
VII. Testing
VIII. Combinations
IX. Comparative Psychology of Two-Way Communication
References
Chapter 4 On the Assessment of Language Competence in the Chimpanzee
I. Introduction
II. Word
III. The Interrogative
IV. Metalanguage
V. Dimensional Classes (Color, Shape, Size)
VI. Sentence
VII. Logical Connectives: If-Then
VIII. Training Procedures
IX. Internal Representation: When Is a Piece of Plastic a Word?
X. Summary and Conclusions
References
Author Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 4
- Published: January 1, 1971
- No. of pages (eBook): 256
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483246321
- eBook ISBN: 9781483259741
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