Animal Intelligence

About this eBook

Author

Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949

Title

Animal intelligence: Experimental studies

Original Publication

United States: The Macmillan Company,1911.

Credits

Emmanuel Ackerman, Kobus Meyer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Animal intelligence

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 69904

Release Date

January 29, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE — CHAPTER I The Study of Consciousness and the Study of Behavior
5. 5.CHAPTER II Animal Intelligence; an Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals [4] — Description of Apparatus — Experiments with Cats — Table 1 — Table 2 — Experiments with Dogs — Experiments with Chicks — Reasoning or Inference — Table 3 — Imitation — Imitation in Chicks — Imitation in Cats — Imitation in Dogs — Table 6 (a) — Table 6 (b) — Table 6 (c) — The Mental Fact in Association — Table 7 — Association by Similarity and the Formation of Concepts — Criticism of Previous Theories — Delicacy of Associations — Complexity of Associations — Number of Associations — Permanence of Associations — Table 8 — Inhibition of Instincts by Habit — Attention — Social Consciousness — Interaction — Conclusion
6. 6.CHAPTER III The Instinctive Reactions of Young Chicks [18] — I — II — Instinctive Reactions to Distance, Direction, Size, etc. — Instinctive Muscular Coördinations — Instinctive Emotional Reactions
7. 7.CHAPTER IV A Note on the Psychology of Fishes [21]
8. 8.CHAPTER V The Mental Life of the Monkeys; an Experimental Study [22] — Introduction — Apparatus — Experiments on the Abilities of the Monkeys to Learn Without Tuition — Table 9 — The Permanence of Associations in the Case of Mechanisms — Experiments on the Discrimination of Signals — Experiments with No. 1 — Experiments with No. 2 — Experiments with No. 3 — Permanence of the Ability to Discriminate — Discussion of Results — Experiments on the Influence of Tuition — Imitation of Human Beings — Imitation of Other Monkeys — Learning apart from Motor Impulses — General Mental Development of the Monkeys
9. 9.CHAPTER VI Laws and Hypotheses for Behavior — Laws of Behavior in General — Provisional Laws of Acquired Behavior or Learning — The Adequacy of the Laws of Exercise and Effect — Simplifications of the Laws of Exercise and Effect — The Evolution of Behavior
10. 10.CHAPTER VII The Evolution of the Human Intellect [46]
11. 11.FOOTNOTES
12. 12.INDEX

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.