Prawn-in-a-tube procedure: habituation or associative learning in cuttlefish?

The Journal of General Psychology | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

THE LEARNING ABILITY OF COLEOID CEPHALOPODS (cuttlefish, octopus, and squid) is of great interest to researchers (Boal, 1996a, 1996b; Hanlon & Messenger, 1996; Mather, 1995; Purdy, Roberts, & Garcia, 1999). Researchers have reported habituation learning (Boycott, 1954; Wells & Wells, 1956), Pavlovian conditioning (Purdy et al., 1999), instrumental and operant conditioning (Crancher, King, Bennett, & Montgomery, 1972; Dews, 1959; Papini & Bitterman, 1991), discrimination learning (reviewed in Boal, 1996b), object permanence (Sanders & Young, 1940), lower levels of concept ...

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