Primates Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
| Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol More on DVD Version More on VHS 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 More on VHS 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 VHS 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. |
| Mother Love More on VHS Version | Harry Harlow examines the reactions of newborn rhesus monkeys to inanimate mother surrogates. Mother Love discusses Harlow's research that body contact is the single most important factor in establishing the mother-infant bond and that deprivation can cause deep emotional disturbance, even death. From the Conquest series. Produced by CBS. (Mother Love, H. F. Harlow; primates) |
| Survey of the Primates (Revised Edition) More on DVD Version More on VHS 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. |
| Nature and Development of Atfection 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 |
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