[tips] Re: info:Wundt/Ethology

[Michael Sylvester]

----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 12:31 PM Subject: [tips] Re: info:Wundt/Ethology In a message dated 8/13/2006 12:16:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In terms of the ethological findings,some distinction must be made between serendipitous findings (stick in ants nest) and well intentioned movements. There is a Goodall segment in The Brain or The Mind video series that illustrates the issue you are raising.  In it, you can see one of the chimps taking a branch with leaves, running his closed hand down the branch to strip it of leaves, then sticking it into the nest. This is more than serendipitous and more like the fixed-action pattern you denied existed in Goodall's discussion of tool-making by the chimps.   Riki Koenigsberg   Did you say one of the chimps? I'll tell you,if I was to defend a dissertation with just a single case,I am sure I would be sent back to the drawing board.   Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english