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Hoist by their own petard: The constraints of hierarchical models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

B. Vereijken  and
H. T. A. Whiting
B. Vereijken
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Idrettsvitenskapelig Institutt Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7034 Trondheim, Norwaybeatrix.vereijken@sv.ntnu.nojohn.whiting@sv.ntnu.no www.sv.ntnu.no/psy/beatrix.vereijken/
H. T. A. Whiting
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Idrettsvitenskapelig Institutt Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7034 Trondheim, Norwaybeatrix.vereijken@sv.ntnu.nojohn.whiting@sv.ntnu.no www.sv.ntnu.no/psy/beatrix.vereijken/
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Abstract

In the context of the motor skill literature on observational learning and hierarchical skill structuring, Byrne & Russon's findings call into question their standpoint that great apes imitate the behaviour of role models at the programme level. The authors impose a hierarchical model on their observations without properly considering alternative explanations. One such possibility, which stems from a constraints perspective that they dismiss, is put forward.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 705
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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