Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies (Classic Reprint)

These studies have, I am informed by teachers of comparative psychology, a twofold interest. Since they represent the first deliberate and extended application of the experimental method in animal psychology, they are a useful introduction to the later literature of that subject. They mark the change from books of general argumentation on the basis of common experience interpreted in terms of the faculty psychology, to monographs reporting detailed and often highly technical experiments interpreted in terms of original and acquired connections between situation and response. Since they represent the point of view and the method of present animal psychology, but in the case of very general and simple problems, they are useful also as readings for students who need a general acquaintance with some sample of experimental work in this field. 1A nimal I ntelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals (98), The Instinctive Reactions of Young Chicks (99), AN ote on the Psychology ofF ishes (99), and The Mental Life of theM onkeys (oi). I have added a theoretical paper, The Evolution of the Human I ntellect, which appeared in the Popular Science Monthly in 1901, and which was a direct outgrowth of the experimental work. I am indebted to the management of the Psychological Review, and that of the American Naturalist and Popular Science Monthly, for permission to reprint the three shorter papers.
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