Primates Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
Primates Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
| Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol More on DVD Version | Illustrates research conducted by E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh between 1976 and 1984 into the nature of language acquisition through the study of symbolic and syntactical skills in primates; the goal of which was to help develop techniques that could be used in teaching language to mentally retarded children. Study guide included. Produced by Savage-Rumbaugh to serve as a visual supplement to her book (Columbia University Press, 1986).. Primate Category |
| Biology, Brain, and Behavior: Social Primates More on DVD Version | This video workbook offers viewers methods for observing and interpreting social behavior. The first part shows clips of rhesus monkeys behaving in a variety of social encounters and asks viewers to analyze the behavior using the methods of a scientific observer. The second part applies those methods to children's rough-and-tumble play in an effort to develop new insights into child development. |
| The Making of Mankind: 1 -- In the Beginning More on DVD Version | In this seven-part series, anthropologist Richard Leakey explores clues that lie buried in fossil records and interprets how humans developed over the millennia. Walking among the earliest-known fossil beds in Turkana, East Africa, Leakey explains humankind's transformation from four-footed, tree-dwelling, vegetarian primates to upright, omnivorous toolmakers. Produced by the BBC. |
| Survey of the Primates (Revised Edition) More on DVD Version | Observes similarities and differences among primates in evolutionary perspective, from tree shrews through prosimians, cercopithecidae, ceboidea, and lesser and great apes. Survey of the primates discusses anatomical, social, and maturational differences, as well as geographical distribution, habitats, intelligence, diet, dentition, learned behavior, manual dexterity, and territoriality among a large number of species. Produced by Duane Rumbaugh, Austin H. Riesen, and Robert E. Lee. Primate category. |
| Teaching Sign Language to the Chimpanzee, Washoe More on DVD Version | Documents Project Washoe, in which two-way communication was established with a chimpanzee by means of sign language. Topics include: the range of Washoe's vocabulary, including signs for objects, proper names, modifiers, actions, and negatives; the development of sentence-like sequences of signs; and the contexts in which she signed, including requests, answers to questions, spontaneous comments and questions, and blind-testing conditions. Research methodology emphasizes integration of two-way communication into all aspects of chimpanzee daily life and rigorous testing procedures. Produced by Allen and Beatrice Gardner. (primates) |
| Nature and Development of Affection More on DVD Version | Nature and Development of Affection. A series of observations and experiments analysing the variables underlying the nature and development of affection in primates. Rhesus monkeys, separated from their mothers at birth, were raised mursing or non-nursing on cloth or wire surrogate mothers. Shoes infants being tested for mother preference under a variety of conditions. Results indicate that contact comfort is the primary variable determining affection and attachmentof the rhesus to the mother. Infant moneys develop strong and persisting affectional attachments to the coloth "mother" and behave in a secure manner in her presence. H.F. Harlow and R. Zimmerman. Primate category primate |
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