Status, Age, and Sex Effects on Performance of Discrimination Tasks in Group-Tested Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 170-182

  Drea, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGING; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AGGRESSION; AGING; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032084738     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.2.170     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Bartlett, D. P., & Meier, G. W. (1971). Dominance status and certain operants in a communal colony of rhesus macaques. Primates, 12, 209-219.
2. Berman, C. M. (1982). The ontogeny of social relations with group companions among free-ranging infant rhesus monkeys. I. Social networks and differentiation. Animal Behaviour, 30, 149-162.
3. Bernstein, I. S. (1981). Dominance: The baby and the bathwater. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 419-457.
4. Bruning, J. L., & Kintz, B. L. (1977). Computational handbook of statistics (2nd ed.). Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman.
5. Bunnell, B. N., Gore, W. T., & Perkins, M. N. (1980). Performance correlates of social behavior and organization: Social rank and reversal learning in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis). Primates, 21, 376-388.
6. Bunnell, B. N., & Perkins, M. N. (1980). Performance correlates of social behavior and organization: Social rank and complex problem solving in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis). Primates, 21, 515-523.
7. Byrne, R. W., & Whiten, A. (1988). Machiavellian intelligence: Social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
8. Capitanio, J. P. (1991). Levels of integration and the "inheritance of dominance." Animal Behaviour, 42, 495-496.
9. Chapais, B. (1988). Experimental matrilineal inheritance of rank in female Japanese macaques. Animal Behaviour, 36, 1025-1037.
10. Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (1985). Vervet monkey alarm calls: Manipulation through shared information? Behavior, 94, 150-166.
11. Darby, C. L., & Riopelle, A. J. (1959). Observational learning in the rhesus monkey. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 52, 94-98.
12. De Waal, F. B. M. (1986). Class structure in a rhesus monkey group: The interplay between dominance and tolerance. Animal Behaviour, 34, 1033-1040.
13. Drea, C. M. (1990). Influence of social factors on discrimination learning and the acquisition of a reversal learning set in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Unpublished master's thesis, Emory University.
14. Drea, C. M. (1991). Influence of social dominance on the acquisition of color discriminations in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Emory University.
15. Drea, C. M., & Wallen, K. (1995). Gradual acquisition of visual discrimination tasks in a social group of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Animal Learning and Behavior, 23, 1-8.
16. Dugatkin, L. A. (1996). Copying and mate choice. In C. M. Heyes & B. G. Galef (Eds.), Social learning in animals: The roots of culture (pp. 85-105). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
17. Fobes, J. L., & King, J. E. (1982). Measuring primate learning abilities. In J. L. Fobes & J. E. King (Eds.), Primate behavior (pp. 289-326). New York: Academic Press.
18. Fragaszy, D. M., & Visalberghi, E. (1990). Social processes affecting the appearance of innovative behaviors in capuchin monkeys. Folia Primatologica, 54, 155-165.
19. Furuichi, T. (1983). Interindividual distance and influence of dominance on feeding in a natural Japanese macaque troop. Primates, 24, 445-455.
20. Galef, B. G., Jr. (1991). Innovation in the study of social learning in animals: Developmental and biological perspectives. In H. N. Shair, G. A. Barr, & M. A. Hofer (Eds.), Developmental psychobiology: New methods and changing concepts (pp. 114-125). New York: Oxford University Press.
21. Galef, B. G., Jr. (1996). Social enhancement of food preferences in Norway rats: A brief review. In C. M. Heyes & B. G. Galef (Eds.), Social learning in animals: The roots of culture (pp. 49-64). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
22. Giraldeau, L.-A., & Lefebvre, L. (1987). Scrounging prevents cultural transmission of food-finding behaviour in pigeons. Animal Behaviour, 35, 387-394.
23. Harlow, H. F. (1944). Studies in discrimination learning by monkeys: I. The learning of discrimination series and the reversal of discrimination series. Journal of General Psychology, 30, 3-12.
24. Heyes, C. M., & Galef, B. G. (Eds.). (1996). Social learning in animals: The roots of culture. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
25. Hikami, K., Hasegawa, Y., & Matsuzawa, T. (1990). Social transmission of food preferences in Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) after mere exposure or aversion training. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 104, 233-237.
26. Hinde, R. A. (1983). Ultimate factors determining individual strategies, relationships and social structure. In R. A. Hinde (Ed.), Primate social relationships: An integrated approach (pp. 250-255). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
27. Ihobe, H. (1989). How social relationships influence a monkey's choice of feeding sites in the troop of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata fuscata) on Koshima Islet. Primates, 30, 17-25.
28. Jay, P. (1965). Field studies. In A. M. Schrier, H. F. Harlow, & F. Stollnitz (Eds.), Behavior of nonhuman primates (Vol. 2, pp. 525-591). New York: Academic Press.
29. Kamil, A. C., & Yoerg, S. I. (1982). Learning and foraging behavior. In P. P. G. Bateson & P. H. Klopfer (Eds.), Perspectives in ethology (Vol. 5, pp. 325-364). New York: Plenum Press.
30. Kawai, M. (1965). Newly-acquired pre-cultural behavior of the natural troop of Japanese monkeys on Koshima Islet. Primates, 6, 1-30.
31. King, B. J. (1994). The information continuum. Santa Fe, NM: Sar Press.
32. Kramer, C. Y. (1956). Extension of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications. Biometrics, 12, 307-310.
33. Lepoivre, H., & Pallaud, B. (1985). Social facilitation in a troop of guinea baboons (Papio papio) living in an enclosure. Behavioural Processes, 11, 405-418.
34. Lindburg, D. G. (1971). The rhesus monkey in North India: An ecological and behavioral study. Primate Behavior, 2, 1-106.
35. Menzel, E. W., Jr. (1966). Responsiveness to objects in free-ranging Japanese monkeys. Behavior, 26, 130-150.
36. Menzel, E. W., & Juno, C. (1982, August 20). Marmosets (Saguinus fuscicollis): Are learning sets learned? Science, 217, 750-752.
37. Pallaud, B., & Lepoivre, H. (1985). Apprentissage d'inversion dans une situation de discrimination spatiale par un groupe de babouins: Interactions entre facteurs cognitifs et facteurs sociaux [Reversal learning in a spatial discrimination situation by a group of baboons: Interactions between cognitive factors and social factors]. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 5, 527-551.
38. Perlman, G. (1987). UNIX/STAT manuals. Data analysis programs on UNIX and MSDOS. Tyngsboro, MA: Wang Institute.
39. Post, D. G., Hausfater, G., & McCuskey, S. A. (1980). Feeding behavior of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus): Relationship to age, gender and dominance rank. Folia Primatologica, 34, 170-195.
40. Rowell, T. E. (1974). The concept of social dominance. Behavioral Biology, 11, 131-154.
41. Rowell, T. E. (1991). What can we say about social structure? In P. Bateson (Ed.), The development and integration of behaviour: Essays in honour of Robert Hinde (pp. 255-270). New York: Cambridge University Press.
42. Sokal, R. R., & Rohlf, J. F. (1981). Biometrix: The principles and practice of statistics in biological research. San Francisco, CA: Freeman.
43. Strayer, F. F. (1976). Learning and imitation as a function of social status in macaque monkeys (Macaca nemestrina). Animal Behaviour, 24, 835-848.
44. Terkel, J. (1996). Cultural transmission of feeding behavior in the black rat (Rattus rattus). In C. M. Heyes & B. G. Galef (Eds.), Social learning in animals: The roots of culture (pp. 17-47). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
45. Timberlake, W. (1990). Natural learning in laboratory paradigms. In D. A. Dewsbury (Ed.), Contemporary issues in comparative psychology (pp. 31-54). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
46. Tomasello, M. (1996). Do apes ape? In C. M. Heyes & B. G. Galef (Eds.), Social learning in animals: The roots of culture (pp. 319-346). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
47. Trivers, R. (1985). Social evolution. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin Cummings.
48. Visalberghi, E., & Fragaszy, D. M. (1995). The behaviour of capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, with novel food: The role of social context. Animal Behaviour, 49, 1089-1095.
49. West, M. J., & King, A. P. (1996). Social learning: Synergy and songbirds. In C. M. Heyes & B. G. Galef (Eds.), Social learning in animals: The roots of culture (pp. 155-178). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
50. Whitehead, J. M. (1986). Development of feeding selectivity in mantled howling monkeys, Alouatta palliata. In J. G. Else & P. C. Lee (Eds.), Primate ontogeny, cognition, and social behaviour (pp. 105-117). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
51. Wrangham, R. W. (1983). Ultimate factors determining social structure. In R. A. Hinde (Ed.), Primate social relationships: An integrated approach (pp. 255-262). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
52. Zajonc, R. B. (1965, July 16). Social facilitation: A solution is suggested for an old unresolved social psychological problem. Science, 149, 269-274.
53. Zentall, T. R., & Galef, B. G., Jr. (1988). Social learning: Psychological and biological perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.