Ant's trail, the course of a psychologist and ethologist
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-51771995000100004Keywords:
Ants, Behavior modification, Behavioral assessment, Ethology, Behaviorism, Comparative psychologyAbstract
This paper reports the path that the author went through in the investigation of some apparently emotional behaviors in ants, and the evolution of his interpretations about these phenomena: an initial cognitive interpretation was replaced, firstly, by an operant conditioning approach, which proved to be improductive. The author relates how he came to the discovery of a new behavioral mechanism, complementary to reflexes and fixed action patterns, and equally automatic and philogenetically determined. This proposition imposes changes in the current conceptions of psychology, ethology and their mutual relationships, and endows ethology with the conditions it presently lacks in order to become a truly complete biological of behavior science.Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Downloads
Published
1995-01-01
Issue
Section
Original Articles
License
Todo o conteúdo de Psicologia USP está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons BY-NC, exceto onde identificado diferentemente.
A aprovação dos textos para publicação implica a cessão imediata e sem ônus dos direitos de publicação para a revista Psicologia USP, que terá a exclusividade de publicá-los primeiramente.
A revista incentiva autores a divulgarem os pdfs com a versão final de seus artigos em seus sites pessoais e institucionais, desde que estes sejam sem fins lucrativos e/ou comerciais, mencionando a publicação original em Psicologia USP.
How to Cite
Ant’s trail, the course of a psychologist and ethologist . (1995). Psicologia USP, 6(1), 43-73. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-51771995000100004