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Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings (Hardcover)

~ (Author), David A. Washburn (Author)
Key Phrases: please machine, animals count, irrelevant foreground cues, San Diego Zoo, Language Research Center, Primate Research (more...)

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Prominent behavioral scientists Rumbaugh and Washburn are highly persuasive in their thesis that animals are rational, making decisions by using higher reasoning skills, not by trial and error and not by reacting in simple stimulus-response fashion to their environs. Yet the authors' theory of primate learning and intelligence, a framework they dub "rational behaviorism," fits with Skinnerian and Pavlovian models of conditioning in its explanations of more complex behaviors. For Rumbaugh and Washburn, the key is not simply in studying the response to the stimulus, but the process by which the response is formed, a process far more rich, involved and rational in its cognitive workings than many give animals credit for. The authors describe innovative studies, by themselves and by other researchers in the field, showing that primates can think in abstract symbols, learn through observation, and understand and react to human speech. The most engaging portion of the book focuses on language learning in primates, including descriptions of several ingenious experiments at the San Diego Zoo. Though earnestly written in a clear style, the book will most likely appeal to academics and students of animal behavior, as it reads like an engaging textbook, with some of the scientific explanations verging on dry. For those with an interest in primate intelligence and some scientific background, this passionately argued and well-substantiated summation judiciously renders the complexities of the animal mind.
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"In this remarkable book, Duane Rumbaugh and David Washburn illuminate the questions of primate intelligence with style, with savvy, and with compassion. This is an intensely provocative and readable journey through an important subject." Deborah Blum, author of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (September 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300099835
ISBN-13: 978-0300099836
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
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please machine, animals count, irrelevant foreground cues, effective conditional stimulus, computerized test system, spatial discontiguity, relative numerousness, unconditional stimulus, meaningful failures, traditional behaviorism, stock sentences, ape language, numerical cognition, insightful learning, cue properties, conditional stimuli, respondent conditioning, psychological intelligence, operant conditioning procedures, unconditional response, brain complexity, salient stimulus

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San Diego Zoo, Language Research Center, Primate Research, Brain Business, Harlow's Bridge, The Assembling of Language, Rational Behaviors, Yerkes Center, Academic Press, First Lessons, Wisconsin General Testing Apparatus, Interesting Events, Lloyd Morgan, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Georgia State University, Frank Kiernan, American Psychological Association, The Russians, Charles Menzel, Foundation of Intelligence, Rational Behaviorism

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5.0 out of 5 stars What Apes Can Teach Us, July 30, 2003

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In 'The Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings', Duane Rumbaugh and David Washburn have provided a unique insight into the lives of apes and other nonhuman primates. Rumbaugh has been a major contributor in the investigation of language skills in nonhuman animals, but the present book takes an even more expanded view of animal intelligence. Rumbaugh and Washburn are promoting a new way of looking at the mental lives of animals, and whether you agree or disagree with this new perspective, the book is a "must-read."

In addition to presenting scientific evidence to support the position of the authors that a new perspective of animal intelligence is needed, the book is also an enjoyable recollection of the first author of his career and the influence of his scientific studies on this perspective of animal intelligence. The reader will learn about the ability of great apes (and in some cases other nonhuman primates) to learn language, arithmetic, and other complex cognitive skills.

Readers familiar with the psychology of learning will be particularly interested in the promotion of a new class of behaviors called Emergents. No longer satisfied that the behavior of animals can be separated into the classes of Respondents and Operants, Rumbaugh and Washburn add this third class of behaviors to describe instances in which novel, appropriate behaviors with no clear reinforcement history 'emerge'. This aspect of the book will be controversial, but in a stimulating and intellectually productive manner indicative of good scholarship. Not everyone will agree with the authors' new perspective, but the reader will appreciate the evidence in support of that perspective.

The contributions of Duane Rumbaugh to the understanding of primate behavior have been substantial, and this book is an excellent summary of what has been learned through Rumbaugh's research. It is well written and would be enjoyable for people of all ages who have an interest in learning about animal intelligence, ape behavior, and more general learning processes.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Too analytical for me, February 22, 2007

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I expected more anecdotal evidence and less scientific methodology for a general audience.

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