The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior by Robert M. Yerkes
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learning and permanency of modifications wrought by training--Results of a
study of the efficiency of discrimination methods--Comparison by means of indices of modifiability--Number of tests per series versus number of series--Efficiency as measured by memory tests. CHAPTER XVI THE DURATION OF HABITS: MEMORY AND RE-LEARNING Measures of the permanency of modifications in behavior--The duration of brightness and color discrimination habits--The relation of learning to re-learning--Can a habit which has been lost completely be re-acquired with greater facility than it was originally acquired?--Relation of special training to general efficiency--Does the training in one form of labyrinth aid the dancer in acquiring other labyrinth habits? CHAPTER XVII INDIVIDUAL, AGE, AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOR Individual peculiarities in sensitiveness, docility, and initiative--The relation of docility to age--The individual result and the average--How averages conceal facts--Sex differences in docility and initiative-- Individual differences of motor capacity which seem to indicate varieties--Is the dancer pathological? CHAPTER XVIII |
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