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I heard about an experiment where 4 monkeys were experimented on and the test involved experimenting with how the monkeys react to certain actions made by the other members of the group when sprayed with water. I was trying to find the article about this, but all I got was information that stated that the experiment was fake. Does anyone know what the name of the experiment was and where I could find the article about it? Or is it actually fake?

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I am not entirely clear where your difficulty lay. A search in Google Scholar for monkey banana water spray turns up, as its fifth item a paper by Pew.

 

On page 20 of that paper, Andragogy and Pedagogy as Foundational Theory for Student Motivation in Higher Education, the author recounts the experiment and provides a reference - Baldwin, 2003.

 

The Baldwin 2003 paper, on page 17, notes "In a famous experiment, G.R. Stephenson [1967] trained adult male and female rhesus monkeys to avoid eating bananas......" The reference then given is:

 

Stephenson, G.R. ―Cultural Acquisition of a Specific Learned Response Among Rhesus Monkeys. In D. Starek, R. Schneider, and H.J. Kuhn (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, 1967, pp. 279-288

 

Unfortunately, I am unable to find the item in Google Scholar, Google Books, Read Cube, PubMed, or any other internet resource. However, a more thorough search than I have the time to take might turn it up online.

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I am not entirely clear where your difficulty lay. A search in Google Scholar for monkey banana water spray turns up, as its fifth item a paper by Pew.

 

On page 20 of that paper, Andragogy and Pedagogy as Foundational Theory for Student Motivation in Higher Education, the author recounts the experiment and provides a reference - Baldwin, 2003.

 

The Baldwin 2003 paper, on page 17, notes "In a famous experiment, G.R. Stephenson [1967] trained adult male and female rhesus monkeys to avoid eating bananas......" The reference then given is:

 

Stephenson, G.R. ―Cultural Acquisition of a Specific Learned Response Among Rhesus Monkeys. In D. Starek, R. Schneider, and H.J. Kuhn (eds.), Progress in Primatology, Stuttgart: Fischer, 1967, pp. 279-288

 

Unfortunately, I am unable to find the item in Google Scholar, Google Books, Read Cube, PubMed, or any other internet resource. However, a more thorough search than I have the time to take might turn it up online.

Yeah, my Google-fu is not up to par, I guess. Thanks for the help. ^_^

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