L, laboratory; C, cages; A, experiment room in which multiple-choice
apparatus was installed; B, E, additional rooms for research; D, store
room and shop; Z, large central cage communicating with the eight
smaller cages 1-8.]
Figure 12 is a ground plan, drawn to scale, of the laboratory and the
adjoining cages, showing the relations of the several rooms of the
laboratory among themselves and to the nine cages. Although the
construction was throughout simple, everything was convenient and so
planned as to expedite my experimental work. The large room A, adjoining
the cages, was used exclusively for an experimental study of ideational
behavior by means of my recently devised multiple-choice method.
Additional, and supplementary, experiments were conducted in the large
cage Z. Room D served as a store-room and work-shop.
The laboratory was forty feet long, twenty-two feet wide, and ten feet
to the plate. Each small cage was six, by six, by twelve feet deep,
while the large compartment into which each of the smaller cages opened
was twenty-four feet long, ten feet wide, and twelve feet deep.
II
OBSERVATIONAL PROBLEMS AND METHODS
My chief observational task in Montecito was the study of ideational
behavior, or of such adaptive behavior in monkeys and apes as
corresponds to the ideational behavior of man. It was my plan to
determine, so far as possible in the time at my disposal, the existence
or absence of ideas and the rôle which they play in the solution of
problems by monkeys and apes. I had in mind the behavioristic form of
the perennial questions: Do these animals think, do they reason, and if
so, what is the nature of these processes as indicated by the
characteristics of their adaptive behavior?
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