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and drawing extrapolations to other animals and to humans.
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So, he would put a cat in a puzzle box.
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And the trick to a puzzle box is
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there's a simple way to get out
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but you have to kind of pull on something,
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some special lever, to make it pop open.
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And Thorndike noted that
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cats do not solve this problem through insight.
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They don't sit in the box for a while
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and mull it over and then figure out how to do it.
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Instead, what they do is they bounce all around doing different things
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and gradually get better and better at it.