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Tranferência de aprendizagem no uso de ferramentas por macacos-prego (Cebus cf. apella)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-05-10) DELAGE, Paulo Elias Gotardelo Audebert; GALVÃO, Olavo de Faria; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7483948147827075
Researchers have been inquiring whether capuchin monkeys (Cebus spp.) tool use proficiency is a result of arbitrary discoveries resulting of exploratory behaviors that are frequent in these primates or is a result of the understanding of the tool function. Considering that these animals may modify, transport and fabricate tools, it is possible to propose that some level of understanding is involved, although related to the life history and built through a series of interactions with situations which are relevant to acquisition of a generalized repertoire of tool use. Aiming to investigate this proposal, a series of experiments with two groups of capuchin monkeys (Cebus cf. apella) was made, with the manipulation of the experimental history of these animals. All subjects were exposed repeatedly to a problem in which they should assembly six plastic blocks to build a tower, use it to reach a stick, with that stick reaching a second stick further distant, assembly the two sticks into a longer one and with that flip containers, dropping and obtaining food pellets. While two subjects were repeatedly exposed to that problem without any additional training, other two subjects were exposed, between exposures to the problem itself, to a rich experimental history of indirectly related tasks. The subjects of the first group were not able to solve the problem, but the subjects of the second group did it, although without direct training. It was concluded that a previous relevant history is essential to the so-called understanding of the solution of the problem and that this understanding or insight is an adaptive behavioral process, in which the learned skills are transferred to new contexts by basic behavioral processes as stimulus generalization, functional generalization and learning-set.