ABSTRACT
This chapter will provide a very brief treatment of a very broad topic-“animal models for human behavior.” While humans tend to think of themselves as unique, and there are a small number of human behaviors that are currently dif—cult to model using animals, there are also many human behaviors that can be effectively studied using animal models. From learning to avoid a shock (Sidman 1953) to learning to use a language (Rumbaugh, Beran, and Savage-Rumbaugh 2003), from suffering from the effects of social deprivation (Harlow and Harlow 1962) or aging (Edry and Buffenstein, chapter 6 in this volume) to bene—ting from the effects of environmental enrichment (Mitra and Sapolsky 2009), studies of animal behavior have taught us a great deal about human (and animal) behavior.
