- Title Pages
- Current Perspectives in Psychology
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Adaptation -
3 Sculpting of Tendencies -
4 Learning, the Foundation of Intelligence -
5 Limitations of Respondents and Operants -
6 First Lessons from Primates -
7 Primate Research at the San Diego Zoo -
8 Interesting Events at the San Diego Zoo -
9 The LANA Project, 1971 -
10 The Assembling of Language -
11 Kanzi! -
12 Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers -
13 When Emergents Just Don't Emerge -
14 Animals Count -
15 Brain Business -
16 Processes Basic to Learning and Reinforcement -
17 Harlow's Bridge to Rational Behaviors -
18 Rational Behaviorism -
19 Overview and Perspective - Epilogue
- References
- Recommended Reading
- Index
Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers
Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers
- Chapter:
- (p.147) 12 Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers
- Source:
- Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings
- Author(s):
Duane M. Rumbaugh
David A. Washburn
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter explores chimpanzees' and bonobos' success in language acquisition. It address why chimpanzees and bonobos succeeded in demonstrating the use and comprehension of language where other animals have failed. It also demonstrates how they learned to understand symbols and human speech and the qualitative differences in learning that can be observed across primate species.
Keywords: chimpanzees, bonobos, language acquisition, comprehension, language, symbols, human speech, learning, primate species
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- Title Pages
- Current Perspectives in Psychology
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Adaptation -
3 Sculpting of Tendencies -
4 Learning, the Foundation of Intelligence -
5 Limitations of Respondents and Operants -
6 First Lessons from Primates -
7 Primate Research at the San Diego Zoo -
8 Interesting Events at the San Diego Zoo -
9 The LANA Project, 1971 -
10 The Assembling of Language -
11 Kanzi! -
12 Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers -
13 When Emergents Just Don't Emerge -
14 Animals Count -
15 Brain Business -
16 Processes Basic to Learning and Reinforcement -
17 Harlow's Bridge to Rational Behaviors -
18 Rational Behaviorism -
19 Overview and Perspective - Epilogue
- References
- Recommended Reading
- Index
