The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior — John Shaqi
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
Quantitative _versus_ qualitative results--Motives--Precautions--
Preference--Results of systematic habit-forming experiments--Curves of
habit formation--Meaning of irregularity in curve--Individual
differences--Comparison of curves for discrimination habits with those for
labyrinth habits--Averages--The index of modifiability as a measure of
docility--Reliability of the index.
CHAPTER XV
THE EFFICIENCY OF TRAINING METHODS
Importance of measuring the efficiency of educational methods--Rapidity of
learning and permanency of modifications wrought by training--Results of a
study of the efficiency of discrimination methods--Comparison by means of
indices of modifiability--Number of tests per series versus number of
series--Efficiency as measured by memory tests.
CHAPTER XVI
THE DURATION OF HABITS: MEMORY AND RE-LEARNING
Measures of the permanency of modifications in behavior--The duration of
brightness and color discrimination habits--The relation of learning to
re-learning--Can a habit which has been lost completely be re-acquired
with greater facility than it was originally acquired?--Relation of
special training to general efficiency--Does the training in one form of
labyrinth aid the dancer in acquiring other labyrinth habits?
CHAPTER XVII
INDIVIDUAL, AGE, AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOR
Individual peculiarities in sensitiveness, docility, and initiative--The
relation of docility to age--The individual result and the average--How
averages conceal facts--Sex differences in docility and initiative--
Individual differences of motor capacity which seem to indicate
varieties--Is the dancer pathological?
CHAPTER XVIII
THE INHERITANCE OF FORMS OF BEHAVIOR
Characteristics of the race--Inheritance of the tendency to whirl in a
particular way--Tests of the inheritance of individually acquired forms of
behavior.
INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS
Dancing Mice--sniffing and eating _Frontispiece_
FIGURE
1. Color patterns of dancers. Record blanks
2. Double cage, with nest-boxes and water dishes
3. Double cages in frame
4. Photographs of dancers climbing (After Zoth)
5. Tracks of common mouse (After Alexander and Kreidl)
6. Tracks of dancer (After Alexander and Kreidl)
7. The inner ear of the rabbit (Retzius)
8. The membranous labyrinth of the ear of the dancer (After Rawitz)
9. Same
10. Same
it. Model of the ear of the dancer (After Baginsky)
12. Ear of the dancer (After Kishi)
13. Ear of the dancer (After Kishi)
14. Discrimination box
15. Ground plan of discrimination box
16. Nendel's gray papers
17. Weber's law apparatus
18. Food-box apparatus
19. Waugh's food-box apparatus
20. Color discrimination apparatus
21. Ground plan of color discrimination apparatus
22. Cards for form discrimination
23. Labyrinth B
24. Labyrinth B on electric wires
25. Labyrinth A
26. Curves of habit formation for labyrinth B
27. Plan of labyrinth C, and path records
28. Labyrinth D
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