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 Table 41 are to be found the average number of errors in each series of
ten white-black discrimination tests for five males and for five females
which were trained by being given ten tests per day, and similarly for the
same number of individuals of each sex, trained by being given twenty
tests per day. Since the results for these two conditions of training are
very similar, the averages for the twenty individuals are presented in the
last column of the table. For the present we may neglect the interesting
individual, sex, and age differences which these experiments revealed and
examine the significant features of the general averages, and of the
white-black discrimination curve (Figure 29).
TABLE 41
WHITE BLACK DISCRIMINATION TESTS. NUMBER OF ERRORS IN
THE VARIOUS SERIES
MALES FEMALES
AVERAGES AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGES AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGES
SERIES FOR 5, FOR 5, AVERAGES FOR 5, FOR 5, AVERAGES FOR ALL
10 TESTS 20 TESTS FOR 10 10 TESTS 20 TESTS FOR 10 (20) MALES
PER DAY PER DAY PER DAY PER DAY AND FEMALES
A 5.8 6.0 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.85
B 5.6 6.2 5.9 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.8
1 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.6 4.6 5.1 5.05
2 2.6 4.6 3.6 4.4 5.0 4.7 4.15
3 3.0 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3
4 2.6 3.8 3.2 2.4 2.2 2.3 2.75
5 2.4 2.0 2.2 2.6 1.8 2.2 2.2
6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.0 2.2 1.6 1.6
7 1.0 1.4 1.2 2.0 0.4 1.2 1.2
8 0.2 0.6 .4 1.4 1.6 1.5 .95
9 0.2 1.0 .6 0.6 0.8 .7 .65
10 0 .8 .4 1.0 0.8 .9 .65
11 0 .8 .4 0.8 0 .4 .40
12 0 .6 .3 0.4 0 .2 .25
13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 0 0 0 0 0 0
[Illustration: FIGURE 29.--Error curve plotted from the data given by
twenty dancers in white-black discrimination tests. The figures in the
left margin indicate the number of errors; those below the base line, the
number of the series. _A_ and _B_ designate the preference series.]
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