Unity+ Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I heard about an experiment where 4 monkeys were experimented on and the test involved experimenting with how the monkeys react to certain actions made by the other members of the group when sprayed with water. I was trying to find the article about this, but all I got was information that stated that the experiment was fake. Does anyone know what the name of the experiment was and where I could find the article about it? Or is it actually fake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 5 monkeys experiment. I don't know if it has ever been conducted. Google it. http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unity+ Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 5 monkeys experiment. I don't know if it has ever been conducted. Google it. http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu The point in me creating this topic was to find the article since I can't find it on Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 (edited) I remember a movie mentioned it at one point can't remember the name. There is also this article http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-Acquisition-of-a-Specific-Learned-Response-Among-Rhesus-Monkeysbut whether or not it is fan-fiction I have no idea. Edited December 3, 2014 by fiveworlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 (edited) I am not entirely clear where your difficulty lay. A search in Google Scholar for monkey banana water spray turns up, as its fifth item a paper by Pew. On page 20 of that paper, Andragogy and Pedagogy as Foundational Theory for Student Motivation in Higher Education, the author recounts the experiment and provides a reference - Baldwin, 2003. The Baldwin 2003 paper, on page 17, notes "In a famous experiment, G.R. Stephenson [1967] trained adult male and female rhesus monkeys to avoid eating bananas......" The reference then given is: Stephenson, G.R. ―Cultural Acquisition of a Specific Learned Response Among Rhesus Monkeys. In D. Starek, R. Schneider, and H.J. Kuhn (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, 1967, pp. 279-288 Unfortunately, I am unable to find the item in Google Scholar, Google Books, Read Cube, PubMed, or any other internet resource. However, a more thorough search than I have the time to take might turn it up online. Edited December 4, 2014 by Ophiolite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unity+ Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 I am not entirely clear where your difficulty lay. A search in Google Scholar for monkey banana water spray turns up, as its fifth item a paper by Pew. On page 20 of that paper, Andragogy and Pedagogy as Foundational Theory for Student Motivation in Higher Education, the author recounts the experiment and provides a reference - Baldwin, 2003. The Baldwin 2003 paper, on page 17, notes "In a famous experiment, G.R. Stephenson [1967] trained adult male and female rhesus monkeys to avoid eating bananas......" The reference then given is: Stephenson, G.R. ―Cultural Acquisition of a Specific Learned Response Among Rhesus Monkeys. In D. Starek, R. Schneider, and H.J. Kuhn (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, 1967, pp. 279-288 Unfortunately, I am unable to find the item in Google Scholar, Google Books, Read Cube, PubMed, or any other internet resource. However, a more thorough search than I have the time to take might turn it up online. Yeah, my Google-fu is not up to par, I guess. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 It looks like a real paper to me http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-Acquisition-of-a-Specific-Learned-Response-Among-Rhesus-Monkeys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 John, I've just said as much by providing a full citation for the paper. Unfortunately I was unable to locate the book, Progress in Primatology, in which it appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I grant you it's not very different, but I thought some people would be more used to a link than to a citation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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