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?

5 monkeys experiment. I don't know if it has ever been conducted. Google it.

 

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu

5 monkeys experiment. I don't know if it has ever been conducted. Google it.

 

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-experiment-with-five-monkeys-a-ladder-a-banana-and-a-water-spray-condu

The point in me creating this topic was to find the article since I can't find it on Google.

I remember a movie mentioned it at one point can't remember the name. There is also this article http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-Acquisition-of-a-Specific-Learned-Response-Among-Rhesus-Monkeysbut whether or not it is fan-fiction I have no idea.

Edited December 3, 201411 yr by fiveworlds

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.

Edited December 4, 201411 yr by Ophiolite

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.

It looks like a real paper to me

http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-Acquisition-of-a-Specific-Learned-Response-Among-Rhesus-Monkeys

John, I've just said as much by providing a full citation for the paper. Unfortunately I was unable to locate the book, Progress in Primatology, in which it appeared.

I grant you it's not very different, but I thought some people would be more used to a link than to a citation.