. The Journal of comparative neurology and psychology. A VISUAL DISCRIMINATION HABIT. Can the dancer acquire a given habit with the same rapidity atdifferent ages ? This question was the starting point of a study ofplasticity which has already been reported in part.^ Before present-ing the results of my experiments I shall very briefly, with the help offigures which are reproduced from an earlier paper, describe themethod of work. Yerkes, Robert M. The Dancing Mouse: a study in animal behavior. NewYork, The Macmillan Company, 1907. xxi + 290. Yerkes, Robert M. and Dodson, John D. The Relation
. The Journal of comparative neurology and psychology. A VISUAL DISCRIMINATION HABIT. Can the dancer acquire a given habit with the same rapidity atdifferent ages ? This question was the starting point of a study ofplasticity which has already been reported in part.^ Before present-ing the results of my experiments I shall very briefly, with the help offigures which are reproduced from an earlier paper, describe themethod of work. Yerkes, Robert M. The Dancing Mouse: a study in animal behavior. NewYork, The Macmillan Company, 1907. xxi + 290. Yerkes, Robert M. and Dodson, John D. The Relation of Strength ofStimulus to Rapidity of Habit-formation. Jour, of Comp. Islcur. and Psy., , p. 459-482, 1908. •The Dancing Mouse, pp. 270-215. Yerkes, ModifiahiUty of Behavior 239 The habit whose formation was studied quantitatively, in the caseof groups of dancers consisting of five pairs each, for the ages of onemonth, four months, seven months, and ten months, may be calledthe white-black discrimination habit. It involved the discrimination. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 1.—Discrimination box. W, electric box with white cardboards; B,electric box with black cardboards. Fig. 2.—Ground plan of discrimination box. A, nest-l>ox; B, entrancechamber; W W, electric boxes; L. doorway of left electric box; R, doorwayfrom right electric box to alley; O, swinging door l>etween alley and A; IC,induction apparatus; C, electric battery; K, key in circuit. of the entrances to two boxes, one of which was white and the otherblack, and the entering of the white box. Any attempt to enter theblack box was punished by an electric shock. Figures 1 and 2 show the experiment box in perspective and in 240 Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. ground plan, respectively. The subject, after being placed in the nestbox, A, by the experimenter, was permitted to pass into the entrancechamber, B. Then a piece of cardboard, which was placed betweenthe animal and the opening into A, was slo
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