- 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
Sculpting of Tendencies
Sculpting of Tendencies
- Chapter:
- (p.31) 3 Sculpting of Tendencies
- Source:
- Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings
- Author(s):
Duane M. Rumbaugh
David A. Washburn
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses the brain as an integrating organ where it integrates experiences to enhance not only survival, but also comfort. It also considers research relevant to the understanding of animals' perceptual and learning abilities.
Keywords: brain, survival, comfort, perceptual abilities, learning abilities
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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
