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Historical SummaryIn general terms, the exposure to experience, the repetition of stimulus, and the resultant memory traces create attitudes, or tendencies to act, which condition behavior, structuralize it in given patterns, and inhibit other possible reactions. In the field of the appetites this is exemplified by an experience of the Arctic explorer Stefansson when attempting to train his dog teams to eat food to which they were not accustomed. Dogs brought up on a diet of seal, caribou meat, and fish were taken to a region where nothing was obtainable except geese and for several days all the dogs in the team refused to eat, and one dog persisted for more than a week before eating at all, although he had to work part of the time. On another occasion Stefansson’s party happened to kill a wolf, and as the dogs of this team had never tasted wolf meat, he took occasion to break the dogs of this food prejudice, thinking he might later be in a situation where only wolf meat was available:
We did not know [he says] exactly the ages of our dogs but could judge them roughly by their teeth. One of the dogs was presumably two or three years older than any other member of the team. There were six dogs altogether. We offered them the meat for three or four days before any of them ate any of it. Then they began to eat it . . . in the order of their age, the youngest being the first to give in. The oldest dog went for two weeks without swallowing any of the wolf meat, although he occasionally took a piece of it in his mouth and dropped it again [and it was necessary to feed him with caribou meat in order to save his life].1
1Stefansson, V.n/an/an/an/an/a, "Food Tastes and Food Prejudices of Men and Dogs," , 11: 540 ff.
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Chicago: "Sci. Monthly," Sci. Monthly in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KD63RRYSZL1JDKC.
MLA: . "Sci. Monthly." Sci. Monthly, Vol. 11, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KD63RRYSZL1JDKC.
Harvard: , 'Sci. Monthly' in Sci. Monthly. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KD63RRYSZL1JDKC.
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