| 单词 | puzzle box |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuzzle box puzzle box n. (a) a puzzle in the form of a box; (b) Psychology a box with no obvious connection between its door and the opening device, designed to test the learning abilities of an animal in trying to release itself. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other puzzles puzzle box1831 cryptarithm1943 alphametic1955 Rubik's cube1980 mind game1988 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > [noun] > box for testing animals puzzle box1831 1831 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 23 Dec. 1 (advt.) Travelling Cases, Paint and Puzzle Boxes, Chess and Cribbage Boards. 1855 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 8 Dec. 3/2 A select assortment of Catholic Books; Toy Books; Puzzle Boxes; Toys, &c. 1866 A. Trollope Claverings in Cornhill Mag. 13 396 Another girl..was engaged with a puzzle-box. 1901 W. S. Small in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 12 231 If the problem set were merely the selection of one effective movement out of several haphazard movements, as was the case with the puzzle-box experiments reported by Dr. Thorndike and myself, then the profiting by experience could be accounted for by the fading away of the useless movements. 1908 M. F. Washburn Animal Mind x. 232 Animals are required to work some kind of mechanism. This may be called briefly the puzzle-box method. 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind 181 The puzzle-box tests of Thorndike. 1970 E. R. Guthrie in W. S. Sahakian Psychol. of Learning iii. 58 An account of the behavior of cats in a puzzle-box is here offered. 2005 Seattle (Washington) Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Life & Arts section) e1 He's made a puzzle box with 16 little slots. Pull a ribbon and it creates a puzzle. < as lemmas |
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