Monkey & Waterspray Experiment
I once heard about this experiment done on monkeys. I am not sure whether it is true or not. The experiment commenced with putting five monkeys in a cage. A bunch of banana was hung from the roof of the cage and a ladder was placed just below the bananas. Soon after the monkeys were put into the cage, one of the monkeys started to approach the ladder in order to reach for the bananas. As soon as the monkey reached the ladder, the rest of the monkeys were sprayed with very cold water. This process was repeated. The monkeys quickly learned that they would suffer with the cold water spray if one on them tried to climb the ladder. So if one of the monkeys tried to climb the ladder, the other monkeys in the cage would attack it and prevent it from reaching the ladder.
Now one of the monkeys in the cage is removed and replaced with a new monkey who did not know about the cold water spray. Naturally, the new monkey saw the bananas and attempted to climb the ladder to reach for the bananas. To its surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attacked it. After another attempt and attack, the new monkey knows that it is forbidden to climb the ladder.
Now, the second of the original five monkeys was replaced with another new monkey. The newcomer found itself attacked when it tried to reach for the ladder. The previous newcomer monkey also joined in the attack.
This process was repeated and the third, forth and fifth of the original monkeys was replaced. Every time the newest monkey takes to the ladder, it was attacked by the rest although most of the monkeys that joined in the attach had no idea why they were not permitted to climb the ladder. Eventually none of the monkeys now had ever been sprayed with cold water. But as soon as any new comer approach the ladder, they would start to attack that monkey. So approaching the ladder became a forbidden act although the original reason behind it was not known to the present group of monkeys.
I only got it on the website I posted, didn't find it anywhere else, so I guess it's not a true experiment, just a story.
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did u get this monkey experiment in google??even i would like to read that but not getting it ..
That's so true riyapatel!
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Ohh My God!
All these bananas fights and water spraying has ruin my Confession Booth paper wall coverings and know looks like a toilet from the city Center mall.....
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It is kinda similar to pavlovs conditioning experiments...
would not like to be in their shoe for all the banana in this world
Poor monkeys. All they wanted to do that day was to hang out in the jungle together, not forced into aggressive experiments :(
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I wouldn't want to be a first monkey
i would get pelted with cold water until the others learned. lol
At least if you came in a bit later, you could learn quick not to approach the ladder, then have the fun of beating up the new comer
Ofcourse! I would never be in a cage that didn't have wireless internet! LOL *sits in the cage eagerly googling why she can't climb the ladder* M-U-S-T F-I-N-D O-U-T! *gets beaten up by the other monkeys again* ouch!
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I'd still wanna be one of the first 5 monkeys.
You get to be the new monkey who enters in much later and then still doesn't climb up the ladder without really knowing the reason for it. Maybe you'll look to google that up from the cage. LOL
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Ofcourse I googled it deji, I wanted to see if it was a real experiment, would be interesting if it was...hmmm...maybe I should conduct that experiment using QLers as my subjects mwahahaha *evil grin*
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Redpope. Trust me bro, everyone will get turns to be one of those monkeys.
I'd still wanna be the first one :)
Corne : Thanks for the inside info!
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Rayz, Which Monkey were you portraying?
Know everyone beat on on Rayz Monkey business!
LOL
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corn. googles anything, even this!
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Wow if it is a true experiment was true then it would explain so much about human mentality and how sometimes we tend to follow without knowing why. However, this isn't a true experiment, it's just an anecdote, tried googling it but all I got was this : http://www.mwls.co.uk/anecdotes/5monkeys.htm
As for chimps' intelligence, they are far more intelligent than people think. In fact, chimps and humans have 96% of their DNA in common.
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monkeys ain't particularly smart. let trees spring up 50 meters from one another... watch monkeys flop!
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Oh oh... I'd wanna be the first monkey to be taken out of the cage. At least that would spare me of being sprayed eachtime a new monkey walks in! LOL
Maybe Darude can do the waterspray job.
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rayys... good experiment there.. hope is true and thats mean monkey really have brain.
shall we try here in QL??? who to be the monkey and who to be the water spayer?? LOL Joking
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