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Dewsbury DA. Comparative cognition in the 1930s. Psychon Bull Rev. 2000;7(2):267-83doi: 10.3758/bf03212982.
Dewsbury, D. A. (2000). Comparative cognition in the 1930s. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 7(2), 267-83. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03212982
Dewsbury, D A. "Comparative cognition in the 1930s." Psychonomic bulletin & review vol. 7,2 (2000): 267-83. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03212982
Dewsbury DA. Comparative cognition in the 1930s. Psychon Bull Rev. 2000 Jun;7(2):267-83. doi: 10.3758/bf03212982. PMID: 10909134.
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Psychon Bull Rev. 2000 Jun;7(2):267-83. doi: 10.3758/bf03212982.

Comparative cognition in the 1930s.

Psychonomic bulletin & review

D A Dewsbury

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611-2250, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 10909134 DOI: 10.3758/bf03212982

Abstract

According to the received view of the history of psychology, behaviorism so dominated psychology prior to the 1960s that there was little research in animal cognition. A review of the research on animal cognition during the 1930s reveals a rich literature dealing with such topics as insight, reasoning, tool use, delay problems, oddity learning, abstraction, spatial cognition, and problem solving, among others. Material on "higher processes" or a related topic was prominent in the textbooks of the period. Tracing academic lineages reveals such teachers as Harvey Carr, Robert M. Yerkes, and Edward C. Tolman as sources of this interest. The alleged hegemony of strict behavioristic psychology, interpreted as excluding research on animal cognition, requires revision. Some possible reasons for this neglect are suggested.

References

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