At 12:23 PM 10/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
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> Jeff,
> The first mazes used in animal learning were modeled after the
> Hampton Court Maze. These occurred in the late 1800's or early 1900's.
>From Boring's (1950). 'A history of experimental Psychology':
"It was in 1899 that L. W. Kline published the outlines of a laboratory course in
comparative psychology along the lines of instruction then being given at Clark.
The next year W. S. Small at Clark published his study of 'the mental process of
the rat', a report of experiments begun in 1898. The second part of this paper
(1901) is noteworthy because it introduces the maze method into the study of
animal intelligence.... Small used a reproduction of the Hampton Court maze for
his
rats, and so provided animal psychology with its maze technique". (p. 627).
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