Social interactions of rhesus monkeys: II. Effects of social interaction on the learning of discrimination tasks.
- 1 January 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 49 (3) , 207-211
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040614
Abstract
A group of ten monkeys was employed to determine the effects of social interactions on the learning of object-quality and oddity discriminations. The social interaction group did not learn object-quality discrimination at a rate significantly different from the controls. Social interaction did improve performance significantly on the oddity task at the .03 point. The administration of paired learning trials also significantly improved performance of three animals selected as "slow learners" on the object-quality task. It is concluded that the effect of social interaction upon learning was a function, in part, of the complexity of the learning task.Keywords
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