Savage-Rumbaugh

Question 0

Aim?

Answer 0

To investigate whether apes could comprehend spoken English without being trained following the progress of two Pygmy chimpanzee

Question 1

Prompted by?

Answer 1

Gardner and Gardner study on teaching apes sign language

Question 2

How many Pygmy chimpanzees?

Answer 2

3; Kanzi, Mulika and Kanzi’s mum

Question 3

Normal chimpanzees?

Answer 3

2; Austin and Sherman

Question 4

How old was Kanzi?

Answer 4

4 years old

Question 5

How long was the study?

Answer 5

17 months

Question 6

How old were the normal chimpanzees?

Answer 6

9 and 10

Question 7

Case study?

Answer 7

4 chimpanzees

Question 8

Communication system?

Answer 8

Lexigram

Question 9

What is a lexigram?

Answer 9

Connected to voice synthesiser and consists of geometric symbols

Question 10

What did Kanzi recognise on the lexigram board?

Answer 10

Apple and banana

Question 11

Key difference of Sherman and Austin?

Answer 11

Were introduced to lexigrams in training, rather than in the environment

Question 12

Sherman and Austin; key board?

Answer 12

Key board did not have a speech synthesiser

Question 13

Sherman and Austin also didn’t?

Answer 13

Did not use the keyboard outside the lab

Question 14

Outdoor environment?

Answer 14

55 acres of forest

Question 15

Why did Kanzi go in the forest?

Answer 15

Kanzi had to get food around the forest

Question 16

Kanzi given people to go around?

Answer 16

Kanzi blind test to guide people round forest using photos and the lexigram

Question 17

Data recording?

Answer 17

Kanzi started using lexigrams at 2.5 years old

Question 18

Vocabulary acquisition criteria?

Answer 18

Confirming that the chimps has learnt new words and could reproduce them accurately

Question 19

Formal tests?

Answer 19

Through observation and in everyday environment e.g if items on floor they may be asked to pick them up in a certain order

Question 20

Results 1?

Answer 20

Spontaneous utterances accounted for more than 80% of Kanzi’s single word and combination utterances

Question 21

Results 2?

Answer 21

Some of Kanzi’s 3 word utterances did something no other chimp has done before

Question 22

Which two chimpanzees were more quick at learning lexigrams?

Answer 22

Kanzi and Mulika compared to Sherman and Austin

Question 23

Which chimpanzees were more able to comprehend spoken language?

Answer 23

Kanzi and Mulika

Question 24

Ecological validity?

Answer 24

Bad environment not natural at all (similar for humans) not natural for Pygmy chimpanzees