Abstract
THIS is a book intended for the general reader rather than for the investigator; and, considering its limited size, it is a very admirable presentation of the best methods by means of which the problem of the nature of animal conduct is now being investigated. This problem is primarily one for the naturalist who knows very intimately the habits of the organisms that are to be studied. Yet experimental psychology is now a science with well-developed methods and criteria, and with a technique of its own, and one cannot consider the multitude of instances of apparently intelligent behaviour in the lower animals without feeling that much of the; lack of critical examination of these cases is due to imperfect knowledge of this technique. The student of biology will find the author's short accounts of the experimental methods devised by Jennings, Yerkes, Thorndike, and others very serviceable, and the bibliography contains references to most of the important memoirs.
The Investigation of Mind in Animals.
By E. M. Smith. Pp. xi + 194. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1915.) Price 3s. net.
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J., J. The Investigation of Mind in Animals . Nature 95, 642 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095642a0
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