43 Season
671 Episode
Nature - Season 1 Episode 11 The Discovery of Animal Behavior: A Question of Learning
First there is a re-creation of Ivan Pavlov's experiments which led to the discovery of the "conditioned reflex." Then we see the investigation by Otto Pfungst of "Kluge Hans" (Clever Hans) a horse whose apparent knowledge of arithmetic was actually response to subtle signals from his trainer. We also see dramatizations of Thomdike's experiments with chicks, Watson's with terns, and B. F. Skinner's famed work at Harvard in the thirties.
- Year: 2024
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, Family
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: love of animals, animal species, wildlife, animals, nature, environmental, helping animals, animal kingdom, knowledge, nature documentary, animals & nature, people and nature
- Director: George Page, Thomas Lovejoy
- Cast: