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
Finally, in Table 45 I have arranged the results of what may fairly be
called the continuous training method. In connection with several of the
labyrinth experiments of Chapter XIII continuous training proved very
satisfactory. It therefore seemed worth while to ascertain whether the
same method would not be more efficient than any other for the
establishment of a white-black discrimination habit. That this method was
not applied to ten individuals as were the two-five-test, the ten-test,
and the twenty-test methods is due to the fact that it proved practically
inadvisable to continue the tests long enough to complete the experiment.
I have usually designated the method as one hundred or more tests daily. I
applied this training method first to individuals Nos. 51 and 60. At the
end of one hundred and twenty tests with each of these individuals I was
forced to discontinue the experiment for the day because of the approach
of darkness. In the table the end of a series for the day is indicated by
a heavy line. The following day Nos. 51 and 60 succeeded in acquiring a
perfect habit after a few more tests.
TABLE 45
EFFICIENCY OF TRAINING. WHITE-BLACK TESTS AT THE RATE OF
100 OR MORE PER DAY
SETS 51[1] 60 87 Av.
OF 10
A 5 5 6 5.3
B 5 3 7 5.0
1 6 6 5 5.7
2 3 2 5 3.3
3 5 4 7 5.3
4 7 4 5 5.3
5 6 2 3 3.7
6 1 1 3 1.7
7 4 2 3 3.0
8 3 3 0 2.0
9 2 2 3 2.3
10 5 0 2 2.3
11 1 2 2 1.7
12 2 1 1 1.3
13 4 1 2 2.3
14 1 2 1 1.3
15 3 1 5 3.0
16 3 3 2 2.7
17 1 0 1 0.7
18 2 0 1 1.0
19 0 0 2 0.7
20 0 0 0
21 0 1 0.3
22 -
23 -
24 -
[Footnote 1: Age of No. 51, 22 weeks. Age of No. 60, 17 weeks. Age of No.
87, 8 weeks.]
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