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Animal intelligence presents experimental studies of animal intellect and behavior, with a preface stating the purpose of making the author's investigations accessible to students of psychology and biology. The discussion argues that reasoning in children two and three years old already has functioning elements, although children’s conclusions are often irrational. The examples include a child who proposes giving another child larger shoes so that she will be able to walk.
The account of animal training identifies obtaining an animal's attention to a signal as a difficulty reported by trainers. The discussion cautions that a chimpanzee handing out straws on command does not thereby demonstrate remarkable intelligence or remarkably delicate associative power.
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- Author
- Edward L. Thorndike
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Biology
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