Performance Correlates of Social Behavior and Organization of Non-Human Primates.

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to identify and investigate performance variables that are correlated with social rank, social behavior, and social organization in monkeys of the genus Macaca. Nine Java males (6 adult and 3 subadult) from one group (T-group) and 12 Java males from another (NT-troop) were assigned to two or more of the following behavioral tests: (1) frustration test, (2) differential reinforcement of low rate (DRL) task, (3) discrimination reversal learning in the WGTA, (4) a complex concept formation task also using the WGTA, (5) open-field test. Within the adults, there was a tendency for poor performance to be related to high rank. The exception to this was the performance on the DRL schedule, where the higher ranking animals stabilized at lower efficiency ratios than the lower ranked animals. As a group, subadult males have tended to perform better on all of the laboratory tasks we have used to date.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041516

Entities

People

  • Bradford N. Bunnell
  • Joseph D. Allen

Organizations

  • University of Georgia

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animals
  • Biomedical Research
  • Cognition
  • Concept Formation
  • Data Analysis
  • Frequency
  • Frustration
  • Hierarchies
  • Human Behavior
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Macaca Fascicularis
  • Monkeys
  • Motivation
  • Observation
  • Primates
  • Psychology
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Psychology

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