The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal BehaviorYerkes, Robert Mearns
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The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
Yerkes, Robert Mearns
Animal behavior; Dancing mice
In all of the color experiments, unless otherwise stated, a series of ten
tests each day was given, until satisfactory evidence of discrimination or
proof of the lack of the ability to discriminate had been obtained. The
difficulties of getting conclusive evidence in either direction will be
considered in connection with the results themselves. For all of these
tests with reflected light the Milton Bradley colored papers were used.
These colored papers were pasted on white cardboard carriers. I shall
designate, in the Bradley nomenclature, the papers used in each
experiment.
With colored cardboards inside the electric-boxes as well as at their
entrances (see Figure 14 for position of cardboards) blue-orange tests
were given to Nos. 2 and 3 until they discriminated perfectly. The papers
were Bradley's blue tint No. 1 and orange. Number 2 was perfect in the
twelfth series (Table 17), No 3 in the fourteenth and again in the
sixteenth. They were then tested with a special brightness check series
which was intended by the experimenter to reveal any dependence upon a
possible brightness difference rather than upon the color difference of
the boxes.
TABLE 17
LIGHT BLUE-ORANGE TESTS IN COLOR DISCRIMINATION BOX
SERIES DATE NO. 2 NO. 3
1906 RIGHT WRONG RIGHT WRONG
(LIGHT (ORANGE) (LIGHT (ORANGE)
BLUE) BLUE)
1 Jan. 26 7 3 1 9
2 27 7 3 5 5
3 28 7 3 6 4
4 29 7 3 7 3
5 30 7 3 4 6
6 31 10 0 7 3
7 Feb. 1 9 1 7 3
8 2 8 2 6 4
9 3 9 1 9 1
10 5 7 3 5 5
11 6 8 2 5 5
12 7 10 0 5 5
Special brightness check series (see Table 18)
13 8 10 0 7 3
Special light blue-dark blue series
14 9 8 2 10 0
15 10 9 1 9 1
Special light blue-dark blue series
16 11 9 1 10 0
Special brightness
check series
17 12 10 0 9 1
TABLE 18
LIGHT BLUE-ORANGE
Brightness check series Mouse No. 2, Series 13
Feb. 8, 1906
TEST CONDITION RIGHT WRONG
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