Animal intelligence: An experimental study of the associative processes in animals.
@article{Thorndike1898AnimalIA, title={Animal intelligence: An experimental study of the associative processes in animals.}, author={Edward Lee Thorndike}, journal={American Journal of Psychology}, year={1898}, volume={2}, pages={149} }
II T his monograph is an attempt at an explanation of the nature of the process of association in the animal mind. Inasmuch as there have been no extended researches of a character similar to the present one either in subject-matter or experimental method, it is necessary to explain briefly its standpoint. Our knowledge of the mental life of animals equals in the main our knowledge of their sense-powers, of their instincts or reactions performed without experience, and of their reactions which…
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