The Discovery of Animal Behaviour: A Question of Learning

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6 videocassettes (60 min. each) : 1/2 in (4th videocassette)

Examines how naturalists, environmentalists and scientists have uncovered the secrets of why animals behave as they do. Presents a unique look at the work of Darwin, Pavlov, Lorenz, Morgan and other famed scientists and how their work improved man's understanding of himself through a knowledge of the social interactions of animals

Narrator, Donald Johanson

1. Natural mysteries (On container: Animals in action) -- 2. In praise of God -- 3. Search for the mind. -- 4. Question of learning -- 5. Signs and signals -- 6. Living together

Producer for BBC, John Sparks ; producer and director for WNET, David Heeley

First there is a re-creation of Ivan Pavlov's experiments which led to the discovery of the "conditioned reflex." Then we see the investigation by Otto Pfungst of "Kluge Hans" (Clever Hans) a horse whose apparent knowledge of arithmetic was actually response to subtle signals from his trainer. We also see dramatizations of Thomdike's experiments with chicks, Watson's with terns, and B. F. Skinner's famed work at Harvard in the thirties.

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John. Sparks, David. Heeley, Donald C. Johanson, British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service., R.M. Productions., WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Films Incorporated.

Language

English

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