Use of social information in the problem solving of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens)
Fourteen juvenile and adult orangutans and 24 3- and 4-year-old children participated in 4 studies on imitative learning in a problem-solving situation. In all studies a simple to operate apparatus was used, but its internal mechanism was hidden from subjects to prevent individual learning. In the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Psychology Vol. 109; pp. 308 - 321 |
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American Psychological Association
September 1995
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