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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: dancing mouse
    sub title: a study in animal behavior
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  title info:
    title: PsycBooks
  name:
    name part: Yerkes, Robert Mearns
    name part: 1876-1956
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1907
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 290 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "This book is the direct result of what, at the time of its occurrence, seemed to be an unimportant incident in the course of my scientific work--the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. My interest in the peculiarities of behavior which the creatures exhibited, as I watched them casually from day to day, soon became experiment-impelling, and almost before I realized it, I was in the midst of an investigation of their senses and intelligence. The longer I observed and experimented with them, the more numerous became the problems which the dancers presented to me for solution. From a study of the senses of hearing and sight I was led to investigate, in turn, the various forms of activity of which the mice are capable; the ways in which they learn to react adaptively to new or novel situations; the facility with which they acquire habits; the duration of habits; the roles of the various senses in the acquisition and performance of certain habitual acts; the efficiency of different methods of training; and the inheritance of racial and individually acquired forms of behavior. The purposes which I have had in mind as I planned and wrote the book are three: first, to present directly, clearly, and briefly the results of my investigation; second, to give as complete an account of the dancing mouse as a thorough study of the literature on the animal and long-continued observation on my own part should make possible; third, to provide a supplementary text-book on mammalian behavior and on methods of studying animal behavior for use in connection with courses in Comparative Psychology, Comparative Physiology, and Animal Behavior"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
  note: by Robert M. Yerkes.
  note: "The Cartwright prize of the Alumni association of the College of physicians and surgeons, Columbia university, was awarded, in 1907, for an essaywhich comprised the first twelve chapters of this volume."
  note: "Literature on the dancing mouse": pages xix-xxi.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Dancing mice
  subject:
    topic: Behavior
  subject:
    topic: Dancing mice
  classification: QL737.R6 Y5 1907
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The animal behavior series. v.l
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 07034599
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MNU
    record creation date: 060915
    record change date: 20260612153416.5
    record identifier: in00003519369
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng