Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies (Summarized Edition)

Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies replaces anecdote with controlled trials, charting how cats, chicks, dogs, and fish escape puzzle boxes and mazes. Using timed learning curves, Thorndike formulates the law of effect and law of exercise, arguing for trial-and-error stamping-in over insight or imitation. Its spare, tabular prose helped found comparative psychology, tempering Romanes's anthr...