Generality of Learning in Situations Involving Tool Use by a Capuchin Monkey
Keywords:
Cebus apella, Comprehension, Generalization, Tool useAbstract
Studies with respect to tool use by Cebidae diverge on the question whether this ability is of an associative type, or if an understanding of the function of tools is involved. Studies showed that abilities of tool use learned in one context may transfer to other contexts, indicating that more than “stimulus-response learning” is involved. In this study, a capuchin monkey was exposed to two problem-solving situations, one where two sticks needed to be fit to reach a piece of food and another where the animal needed to fit a different model of sticks to hit an equipment. The results showed that solving the first problem facilitated the solution of the second, indicating that responses which were successful in solving previous problems are more probable to occur in new situations.
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Bortolini, T. S., & Bicca-Marques, J. C. (2007). A case of spontaneous tool-making by a captive capuchin monkey. Neotropical Primates, 14, 74-76.
Carvalho Neto, M. B., & Delage, P. E. G. A. (2006). Criatividade e Análise do Comportamento. Curso ministrado no XV Encontro Brasileiro de Psicoterapia e Medicina Comportamental, Brasília, Brasil
Catania, A. C., (1999). Aprendizagem: Comportamento, Linguagem e Cognição. (D.G. Souza, Trad.) Porto Alegre: Artmed. (Trabalho original publicado em 1984)
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Epstein, R., Kirshnit, C., Lanza, R., & Rubin, L. (1984). „Insight“ in the pigeon: antecedents and determinants of an intelligent performance. Nature, 308, 61-62.
Fernandes, E. B. M. (1991). Tool use and predation of oysters by the tufted capuchin in brackish water mangrove swamp. Primates, 32, 529-531.
Fragaszy, D. M., Visalberghi E., & Fedigan, L. M. (2004). The complete capuchin: the biology of the genus Cebus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fragaszy, D. M., Izar, P., Visalberghi, E., Ottoni, E. B., & Oliveira, M. G. (2004). Wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) use anvils and stone pounding tools. American Journal of Primatology, 64, 359-366.
Fujita, K., Kuroshima, H., & Asai, S. (2003). How do tufted capuchin monkey (Cebus apella) understand causality involved in tool use? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Process, 29, 233-242.
Harlow, H. F. (1947). The formation of learning sets. Psychological Review, 56, 51-65.
Hihara, S., Obayashi, S., Tanaka, M., & Iriki, A. (2003). Rapid learning of sequential tool use by macaque monkeys. Physiology & Behavior, 78, 427-434.
Lavalle A. C. (1999). Capuchin tool use in a captive naturalistic environment. International Journal of Primatology, 20, 399-414.
Millenson, J. R. (1975). Princípios de análise do comportamento (A. A. Souza & D. Rezende, Trad.). Brasília: Coordenada (Trabalho original publicado em 1967).
Ottoni, E. B., & Mannu, M. (2001). Semifree-ranging tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) spontaneously use tools to crack open nuts. International Journal of Primatology, 22, 347-358.
Ottoni, E. B., & Izar, P. (2008). Capuchin monkey tool use: overview and implications. Evolutionary Anthropology, 17, 171”“178.
Resende, B. D., & Ottoni, E. B. (2002). Brincadeira e aprendizagem do uso de ferramentas em macacos-prego (Cebus apella). Estudos de Psicologia, 7, 173-180.
Rocha, J. V., dos Reis, N. R., & Sekiama, M. L. (1998). Uso de ferramentas por Cebus apella para obtenção de larvas de Coleóptera que parasitam sementes de S. romanzofianum. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15, 945-950.
Tokida, E., Tanaka, I., Takefushi H., & Hagiwara T. (1994). Tool-use in Japanese Macaques: use of stones to obtain fruit from a pipe. Animal Behavior, 47, 1023-1030.
Visalberghi, E., Fragaszy, D. M., & Savage-Rumbaugh, S. (1995). Performance in a tool-using task by common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus), orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 109, 52-60.
Visalberghi, E., & Limongelli, L. (1994). Lack of comprehension of cause-effect relations in tool-using capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 108, 15-22.
Visalberghi, E., Spagnoletti, N., Silva, E. D. R., Andrade, F. R. D., Ottoni, E., Izar, P., & Fragaszy, D. (2009). Distribution of potential suitable hammers and transport of hammer tools and nuts by wild capuchin monkeys. Primates, 50, 95-104.
Visalberghi, E., & Tomasello, M. (1998). Primate causal understanding in the physical and psychological domains. Behavioral Processes, 42, 189-203.
Westergaard, G. C. (1992). Object Manipulation and the Use of Tools by Infant Baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 106, 398-403.
Westergaard, G. C., & Fragaszy, D. M. (1987). The manufacture and use of tools by capuchin monkeys. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, 159-168.
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2011-02-12
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Delage, P. E. G. A., & Galvão, O. de F. (2011). Generality of Learning in Situations Involving Tool Use by a Capuchin Monkey. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 26(4), 687–694. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17493
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