RHESUS-MONKEYS ARE RADICAL BEHAVIORISTS

Authors
GALLUP GG
Citation
Gg. Gallup, RHESUS-MONKEYS ARE RADICAL BEHAVIORISTS, Behavioral and brain sciences, 19(1), 1996, pp. 129
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
19
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1996)19:1<129:RARB>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The data reviewed in Barresi & Moore's treatment of social understandi ng is recast in terms of a model of social intelligence that was advan ced some time ago (Gallup 1982). When it comes to their analysis of th e behavior of other individuals, most primates (and humans younger tha n 18 months of age) appear to function as radical behaviorists, wherea s chimpanzees and older infants show evidence of becoming primitive co gnitive psychologists.