Table headings: Column A: SUBJECT, DATE, ACT Column B: TIME TRIED ALONE, WITH RESULT Column C: NO. OF TIMES IMITATEE DID Column D: RESULT AFTER CHANCE FOR IMITATION Column E: SIMILARITY OR DISSIMILARITY OF ACT Column F: SIMILAR ACT ATTEMPTED, THOUGH UNSUCCESSFULLY IN CASES WHERE IT HAD NOT BEEN BEFORE TRAINING Column G: GENERAL JUDGMENT AS TO INFLUENCE OF TRAINING
======================+========+====+======+=============+=====+======= A | B | C | D | E | F | G ----------------------+--------+----+------+-------------+-----+------- No. 3. Dec. 17, 1900. | 50 F | 43 | 55 F | | No. | None. VV (wire loop) | | | | | | No. 3. Jan. 15, 1901. | 91 F | 75 | 35 F | | No. | None. QQ (c) (nail chute) | 1.30 | | | | | No. 3. Jan. 21, 1901. | 63 F | 43 | 5 F | Dissimilar. | No. | None. Gamma (wind) | | | 9.00 | | | | | | 6.00 | | | No. 3. Jan. 21, 1901. | 20 F | 30 | 1.30 | Dissimilar. | No. | None. QQ (ff) (string | 2.00 | | .40 | | | chute with wire) | | | .35 | | | | | | 5 F | | | No. 3. Jan. 23, 1901. | 1.15 F | 40 | 10 F | | No. | None. QQ (chute) | | | | | | ======================+========+====+======+=============+=====+=======
Nothing in my experience with these animals, then, favors the hypothesis that they have any general ability to learn to do things from seeing others do them. The question is still an open one, however, and a much more extensive study of it should be made, especially of the possible influence of imitation in the case of acts already familiar either as wholes or in their elements.
