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The Mentality of Apes by Wolfgang Köhler is a landmark work in ethology, cognitive psychology and the study of the anthropoid apes. In it the author, a leading gestalt psychologist, showed that chimpanzees could solve problems by insight. The importance of this work was to show there is no absolute dividing line between the human species and ...
Sultan, one of the brightest of the early chimpanzees used for psychological research, was tested by Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler. Sultan is particularly recognized for his insight in solving numerous problems, including stacking or manipulating boxes to reach a reward and use of two sticks as a unit to rake food to a reachable ...
Wolfgang Köhler (21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology . During the Nazi regime in Germany, he protested against the dismissal of Jewish professors from universities, as well as the requirement that professors ...
A 16th century woodcut of Archimedes ' eureka moment. The eureka effect (also known as the Aha! moment or eureka moment) refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. Some research describes the Aha! effect (also known as insight or epiphany) as a memory advantage, [1] [2] but ...
Robert Mearns Yerkes ( / ˈjɜːrkiːz /; May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology . Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of ...
Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. [1] [2] [3] Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes , evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , philosophers Paola Cavalieri and Peter ...
Animal rights. The Great Ape Project ( GAP ), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans .
The human and chimpanzee evolutionary lineages split about 6.9 million to 9 million years ago, according to research published in June. Studying chimpanzee behavior may offer insight into our own ...