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Animal intelligence: Experimental studies

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Animal intelligence: Experimental studies

Edward Lee Thorndike

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Thorndike put cats in puzzle boxes and timed their escapes, and modern psychology was born. These experiments test how cats, dogs, and chicks actually learn, replacing anecdote with apparatus and tables of data. The origin of the learning curve and the law of effect. Watch animal intelligence become an exact science, one latch at a time.

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65 chapters

  1. 1ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE
  2. 2CHAPTER I The Study of Consciousness and the Study of Behavior
  3. 3CHAPTER II Animal Intelligence; an Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals[4]
  4. 4Description of Apparatus
  5. 5Experiments with Cats
  6. 6Table 1
  7. 7Table 2
  8. 8Experiments with Dogs
  9. 9Experiments with Chicks
  10. 10Reasoning or Inference
  11. 11Table 3
  12. 12Imitation
  13. 13Imitation in Chicks
  14. 14Imitation in Cats
  15. 15Imitation in Dogs
  16. 16Table 6 (a)
  17. 17Table 6 (b)
  18. 18Table 6 (c)

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