Imitation in monkeys

Haggerty, M. E.

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.86400

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“…However, the table does not cover all of those examples in the literature of imitation studies involving more than one species (many of which predate those publications listed, e.g. Haggerty 1909; and see tables in Tomasello and Call 1997;and Whiten and Ham 1992). Examples included are those that are explicitly testing for species differences, rather than combining the data on more than one species to investigate, for example, imitation in non-human primates as a group.…”

Section: Stoinski Et Al 2001mentioning

confidence: 94%

Evolutionary perspectives on imitation: is a comparative psychology of social learning possible?

Caldwell

Whiten

2002

Animal Cognition

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Studies of imitation in animals have become numerous in recent times, but do they contribute to a comparative psychology of social learning? We review this burgeoning field to identify the problems and prospects for such a goal. Difficulties of two main kinds are identified. First, researchers have tackled questions about social learning from at least three very different theoretical perspectives, the "phylogenetic", "animal model", and "adaptational". We examine the conflicts between them and consider the scope for integration. A second difficulty arises in the methodological approaches used in the discipline. In relation to one of these - survey reviews of published studies - we tabulate and compare the contrasting conclusions of nine articles that together review 36 studies. The basis for authors' disagreements, including the matters of perceptual opacity, novelty, sequential structure, and goal representation, are examined. In relation to the other key method, comparative experimentation, we identify 12 studies that have explicitly compared species' imitative ability on similar tasks. We examine the principal problems of comparing like with like in these studies and consider solutions, the most powerful of which we propose to be the use of a systematic range of task designs, rather than any single "gold standard" task.

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Section: Stoinski Et Al 2001mentioning

confidence: 94%

Evolutionary perspectives on imitation: is a comparative psychology of social learning possible?

Caldwell

Whiten

2002

Animal Cognition

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“…Several studies (Berry, 1906(Berry, , 1908Haggerty, 1909;Thorndike, 1911;Watson, 1908) were carried out in the early part of this century to determine if animals can learn by observation. Positive and negative results were reported, and the issue remained unresolved.…”

Section: Jon Evan Del Russomentioning

confidence: 99%

Observational learning of discriminative avoidance in hooded rats

Russo

1975

Animal Learning & Behavior

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“…Haggerty (6) has called attention to the fact that monkeys may exhibit a tendency to imitate and still not be entirely successful in solving the problem at hand. After a careful analysis of the quality of social facilitation observed in our animals, it was decided to recognize the following types of imitative activity: I, immediate imitation-solution of task within the 60-second test period.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hag. Downloaded by [University of Central Florida] at 08:20 06 April 2015 gerty (6,7) offers the best evidence to date for imitation in monkeys. Instances of clear-cut imitation were limited to a few of the animals tested, and some of the tasks involved were exceedingly simple for primates.…”

Section: Imitative Behavior In the Rhesus Monkeylmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…It is enough, perhaps, that the task involve merely a new pattern of previously learned unit activities. Haggerty (6) and others permitted considerable practice at the task (with continued failure) before giving the imitation tests. The requirement that the response follow the observation immediately has been generally disregarded.…”

Section: Imitative Behavior In the Rhesus Monkeylmentioning

confidence: 99%

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