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Animal Creativity as a Function of Behavioral Innovation and Behavior Flexibility in Problem-solving Situations

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A natural approach of animal creativity through insightful problem-solving may offer a panel of how physiological, contextual, cultural and developmental variables related to each other to produce new behaviors. The spontaneous interconnection of acquire behaviors is an Insightful Problem-Solving model based on the new combination and/or chaining of behaviors that were previously and independently trained. This model seems to offer an integrative alternative for the studies of Innovation and Behavioral Flexibility because it allows the research on innovation in a scenario in which the response that solves the problem situation is not available by trial-and-error. Measuring task-appropriateness by behavior flexibility and novelty by behavior innovation under insightful problem-solving paradigm can contribute for the integration of decades of evidence in Cognitive Psychology, Neuro-ethology, Behavior Analysis and Behavioral Neurosciences. The Insightful Problem-Solving allows the independent test of behavioral innovation and behavioral flexibility as it measures the behavioral innovation inside insightful test and tests if the BF depends on variables arranged in the problem-situation and/or on the previous training (e.g. familiarity with access to appetitive stimulus in the pre-test, the number of distinct behaviors trained, and contingency changes in the post-test).

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This research was partially funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Develoment (CNPq-Brazil, number 142215/2016-3), and Coordination for the Improvement of Personal of Higher Education (CAPES-Brazil, 88887.469044/2019-00).

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Santana, L.H., Garcia-Mijares, M. Animal Creativity as a Function of Behavioral Innovation and Behavior Flexibility in Problem-solving Situations. Integr. psych. behav. 56, 218–233 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09586-5

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