Behavior Monographs, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Uncover how animals learn, forget, and transfer knowledge across different tasks. This collection surveys classic experiments in animal behavior, focusing on how training in one maze or color task influences performance in others, and what this reveals about learning and inheritance in nature.

This edition gathers studies showing how white rats transfer training between maze patterns, how color cues affect fish behavior, and how heredity shapes wildness and savageness in mice. It presents methods, results, and discussion that illuminate the dynamics of learning, adaptation, and genetic influence in nonhuman subjects.

• How transfer of training is measured and what it implies about positive versus negative transfer.


• How differences in maze design can alter learning and the interpretation of results.


• Different methods used to study color vision in fish, including training and response techniques.


• Observations on how heredity and mating patterns influence behavioral traits across generations.

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