Intelligence of apes and other rational beings

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Identifies an advanced level of animal behaviour that reflects animals' natural and active inclination to make sense of the world. Rumbaugh and Washburn present a way to understand learning, intelligence and rational behaviour in both animals and humans.

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Main Author: Rumbaugh, Duane M., 1929-
Other Authors: Washburn, David A., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003
Series:Current perspectives in psychology.
Subjects:
Apes > Psychology.
Animal intelligence.
Psychology, Comparative.
Animal behavior.
Intellect.
Behavior, Animal
Hominidae > psychology
Intelligence
Psychology, Comparative
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Adaptation
  • Sculpting of tendencies
  • Learning, the foundation of intelligence
  • Limitations of respondents and operants
  • First lessons from primates
  • Primate research at the San Diego Zoo
  • Interesting events at the San Diego Zoo
  • The LANA Project, 1971
  • The assembling of language: Sherman and Austin
  • Kanzi!
  • Asking questions so that animals can provide the right answers
  • When emergents just don't emerge
  • Animals count
  • brain business: cause-effect reasoning
  • Processes basic to learning and reinforcement: a new perspective
  • Harlow's bridge to rational behaviors
  • Rational behaviorism
  • Overview and perspective.

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