B. Carrying the animal and putting him on a pile of boxes.
C. Carrying the animal and putting him on the top of a sewing machine.
D. Carrying the animal and putting him on the middle of a board 6 feet long, stretched horizontally across the room, 3 feet from the floor.
E. Carrying the animal and putting him on the side of the cage, head down.
The results are given in Table 13.
The size of the room in which I worked and other practical difficulties prevented me from extending these experiments. As they stand, no stable judgments can be inferred from them. It should be noted that in the successful cases there were no other signs of the presence of the idea ‘food when there’ than the mere going to a certain place. The animal did not wait at the place more than a second or two, did not look at me or show any signs of expecting anything.
Table 13
| Experiment and date | Animal | Results before training | Number of times put through | Results after training |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Jan. 22, 1901 | No. 1. | 5 F | 10 | 1.00 |
| 3.00 | ||||
| Jan. 22, 1901 | No. 1. | 5 F | 10 | im. |
| 3.30 | ||||
| Jan. 23, 1901 | No. 3. | 5 F | 10 | 3.30 |
| 5 F | ||||
| B. Jan. 26, 1901 | No. 1. | 10 F | 10 and 5 | 10 F 5 F |
| No. 3. | 5 F | 10 | 5 F | |
| 10 | 5 F | |||
| C. Jan. 27, 1901 | No. 1. | 5 F | 10 | 3.00 |
| D. Jan. 27, 1901 | No. 1. | 3.20 | 10 | 5 F |
| E. Jan. 26, 1901 | No. 3. | 5 F | 5 | 5 F |
Although, as I noted in the early part of this monograph, there were occasionally phenomena in the general behavior of the monkeys which of themselves impressed one as being suggestive of an ideational life, the general run of their learning apart from the specific experiments described was certainly confined to the association of impulses of their own with certain situations. The following examples will suffice:—