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Ape-language reports, regardless of the extent of language skills claimed for apes, present both a challenge and a problem for psychology as a field. The problem is that none of the ape-language studies fit neatly into the extant categories of research. They are not “animal learning” studies in that they do not look for basic principles or laws of learning nor do they not deal with a retricted type of learning such as discrimination, memory, etc. Instead, they involve all of these processes at once in a complex manner for the expressed purpose of communication (Savage-Rumbaugh, Rumbaugh, and Boysen, 1978).
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Savage-Rumbaugh, E.S., Hopkins, W.D. (1986). The Evolution of Communicative Capacities. In: Bechtel, W. (eds) Integrating Scientific Disciplines. Science and Philosophy, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9435-1_14
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