The Mentality Of Apes

Author : Wolfgang Köhler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mentality of Apes written by Wolfgang Köhler and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains the results of my studies in the intelligence of Apes at the Anthropoid Station in Tenerife from the years 1913-1917. The original, which appeared in 1917, has been out of print for some time. I have taken this opportunity of making a few changes in the critical and explanatory sections, and have added as an Appendix some general considerations on the Psychology of Chimpanzees. With various recent books and essays on the subject I shall have an opportunity of dealing in a further contribution to the subject not yet completed"--Preface.

Author : Wolfgang Köhler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mentality of Apes written by Wolfgang Köhler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang Kohler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351294946
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mentality of Apes written by Wolfgang Kohler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Koehler demonstrated that chimpanzees could solve problems by applying insight. His research showed that the intellectual gap between humans and chimpanzees was much narrower than previously thought. The work was revolutionary when originally published in 1917 in German, but it was largely ignored for decades because it violated the conventional wisdom that animal behavior is simply the result of instinct or conditioning. However, Koehler's research showed this was not the case. He used four chimps in his experiments, Chica, Grande, Konsul, and Sultan. The experiments consisted of placing chimpanzees in an enclosed area and presenting them with a desired object that was out of reach. In one experiment, Koehler placed bananas outside Sultan's cage and two bamboo sticks inside his cage which needed to be put together to reach the bananas. Koehler demonstrated the solution to Sultan by putting his fingers into the end of one of the sticks. After some contemplation, Sultan put the two sticks together and was able to reach the bananas. As Jaan Valsiner shows in his introduction to this classic work, Koehler's analysis of the intelligence of apes marked a turning point in the psychology of thinking and the continuing struggle between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Koehler achieved his two-fold aim: to determine the relationship between the intellectual capacity of higher primates and man, and to gain insight into the nature of intelligent acts.

Author : Wayne Dennis
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447495462
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings In The History Of Psychology written by Wayne Dennis and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of writing by some of the finest minds the world has ever known. A must read fro anybody with an interest in the history of psychology, with writings by the Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Von Helmholtz, Thorndike and much more. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243323
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eating Apes written by Dale Peterson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation As Jane Goodall never fails to mention, "bush meat is the greatest conservation crisis in my lifetime." This book documents in text and photographs how wild animals in the Congo Basin, particularly the Great Apes but also chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, are slaughtered and used for human consumption.

Author : E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195109864
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apes, Language, and the Human Mind written by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human. At the forefront of this research, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh recently has achieved a scientific breakthrough of impressive proportions. Her work with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has led to Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills similar to those of a two and a half year-old human child. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a fascinating narrative of the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. The first part of the book provides a detailed, personal account of Kanzi's infancy, youth, and upbringing, while the second part addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues raised by the Kanzi research. The authors discuss the challenge to the foundations of modern cognitive science presented by the Kanzi research; the methods by which we represent and evaluate the abilities of both primates and humans; and the implications which ape language research has for the study of the evolution of human language. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind, and will be important reading for all those working in the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

Author : Wolfgang Köhler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415191326
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mentality of Apes written by Wolfgang Köhler and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : the late N. N. Ladygina-Kohts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199770793
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child : A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence written by the late N. N. Ladygina-Kohts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition presents the first complete English translation of N.N. Ladygina-Kohts' journal chronicling her pioneering work with the chimpanzee, Joni. The journal entries describe and compare the instincts, emotions, play, and habits of her son Rudy and Joni as each develops. First published in Moscow in 1935 as a memoir in the Darwin Museum Series, this edition has 120 photographs, 46 drawings and an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada, as well as a Foreword and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr, Signe Preuschoft, and Frans B. M. de Waal of the Living Links Center at Emory University.

Author : Daniel J. Povinelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Physics for Apes written by Daniel J. Povinelli and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physical principles, such as gravity, force, mass, and shape. We can see this in the way that young children play, and manipulate objects around them. The same behavior has long been observed in primates - chimpanzees have been shown to possess a remarkable ability to make and use simple tools. But what does this tell us about their inner mental state - do they therefore share the same understanding to that of a young child? Do they understand the simple, underlying physical principles involved? Though some people would say that they do, this book reports groundbreaking research that questions whether this really is the case. Folk Physics for Apes challenges the assumptions so often made about apes. It offers us a rare glimpse into the workings of another mind, examining how apes perceive and understand the physical world - an understanding that appears to be both similar to, and yet profoundly different from our own. The book will have broad appeal to evolutionary psychologists, developmental psychologists, and those interested in the sub-disciplines of cognitive science (philosophy, anthropology). The book additionally offers for developmental psychologists some valuable new non-verbal techniques for assessing causal understanding in young children.

Author : Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226492818
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind of the Chimpanzee written by Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave. The Mind of the Chimpanzee brings together scores of prominent scientists from around the world to share the most recent research into what goes on inside the mind of our closest living relative. Intertwining a range of topics—including imitation, tool use, face recognition, culture, cooperation, and reconciliation—with critical commentaries on conservation and welfare, the collection aims to understand how chimpanzees learn, think, and feel, so that researchers can not only gain insight into the origins of human cognition, but also crystallize collective efforts to protect wild chimpanzee populations and ensure appropriate care in captive settings. With a breadth of material on cognition and culture from the lab and the field, The Mind of the Chimpanzee is a first-rate synthesis of contemporary studies of these fascinating mammals that will appeal to all those interested in animal minds and what we can learn from them.