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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Candland, Douglas K. Feral children and clever animals. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (OCoLC)624595928 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas K Candland |
| ISBN: | 0195074688 9780195074680 |
| OCLC Number: | 27379732 |
| Description: | xx, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I. What Feral Children Tell Us. 1. Nature and Nurture: Children without Human Parenting. 2. Kaspar Hauser and the Wolf Children -- Pt. II. Four Psychologies. 3. Thinking about the Mind. 4. The Psychology of Psychoanalysis: Freud and Little Hans. 5. The Psychology of Experimentalism and Behaviorism: Clever Hans and Lady Wonder. 6. Experimentation and the Experimenter: Clever Hans's Companions. 7. The Psychology of Perceiving: Phenomenology and Ethology -- Pt. III. The Mental Ladder. 8. Peter and Moses, Chimpanzees Who Write. 9. Exploiting the Missing Link -- Pt. IV. People and Apes Communicating. 10. Raising Human Babies with Chimps: Donald, Gua, and Viki. 11. Human and Ape Communication: Washoe, Koko, and Nim. 12. Language and Meaning: Sarah and Lana, Sherman and Austin, Kanzi and Ai -- Pt. V. Principles and Myths. 13. Feral Children and Clever Animals. |
| Responsibility: | Douglas Keith Candland. |
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Abstract:
In this book, Douglas Keith Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans 'think,' we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. --From publisher's description.
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