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
It should be explained at this point that the results in all the
efficiency-of-training tables of this chapter are arranged, as in the
previous white-black discrimination tables, in tens, that is, each figure
in the tables indicates the number of errors in a series of ten tests. In
all cases _A_ and _B_ mark preliminary series of tests which were given at
the rate of ten tests per series. The numbers in the first column of these
tables designate groups of ten tests each, and not necessarily daily
series. In Table 42, for example, 1 includes the results of the first five
days of training, 2, of the next five days, and so on. The table shows
that No. 80 made seven wrong choices in the first five series of two tests
each. This method of grouping results serves to make the data for the
different methods directly comparable, and at the same time it saves space
at the sacrifice of very little valuable information concerning the nature
of the daily results. It is to be noted, with emphasis, that the two-five
tests per day training established a perfect habit after four weeks of
training. This method is therefore costly of the experimenter's time.
TABLE 42
EFFICIENCY OF TRAINING. WHITE-BLACK TESTS AT THE RATE
OF 2 OR 5 PER DAY
MALES FEMALES
SETS 80 82 84 86 88 AV. 73 79 83 85 89 AV.
OF 10
A 5 5 4 8 5 5.4 5 6 7 7 6 6.2
B 5 3 6 5 6 5.0 7 5 7 6 7 6.4
1 7 7 6 6 6 6.4 7 6 9 4 6 6.4
2 2 1 0 6 6 3.0 6 5 6 5 5 5.4
3 4 5 5 1 2 3.2 6 5 2 4 1 3.6
4 3 4 7 2 0 3.2 4 3 1 4 3 3.0
5 2 3 3 2 4 2.8 - 3 4 3 1 2.7
6 2 2 - 2 2 2.0 - 0 2 2 0 1.0
7 - 1 - 0 1 0.7 - 1 0 2 1 1.0
8 - - - 1 1 1.0 - 1 1 0 0 0.5
9 - - - 0 1 0.5 0 1 1 0 0 0.5
10 - - - 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0
11 - - - 0 0 0 - 0 0 0
12 - - - 0 0 - 0 0 0
TABLE 43
EFFICIENCY OF TRAINING. WHITE-BLACK TESTS AT THE RATE OF
10 PER DAY
MALES FEMALES
SETS 210 220 230 410 420 AV. 215 225 235 415 425 AV.
OF 10
A 6 5 6 6 6 5.8 8 4 4 8 5 5.8
B 6 8 8 5 1 5.6 8 7 6 6 2 5.8
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