Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Edward L. Thorndike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440070423 ISBN 13: 9781440070426

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

The main purpose of this volume is to make accessible to students of psychology and biology the author's experimental studies of animal intellect and behavior. 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.

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About the Author:

Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949) had a distinguished career in psychology that spanned more than half a century. Through most of his career, Thorndike was a professor of psychology at Columbia University. He authored more than 500 publications.
 

Review:

“One hundred years ago, Thorndike's experiments on the learning of cats, dogs, chickens, and fish initiated the study of comparative psychology... This reissue of the 1911 monograph by Thorndike (d. 1949) will interest historians of science. The work was written in refreshingly plain English and contains many figures and tables with his experimental data, and a short index...  Graduate students; faculty.” 

—T. C. Williams, Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1440070423
• ISBN 13: 9781440070426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318