In fact, he called them "Beast machines" and said animals, nonhuman animals are merely robots, but people are different.

实际上他将动物称之为"野兽机器",他认为,非人类动物全是机器人,但人类是不同的

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It makes sense when you hear it but it's the sort of finding that's been validated over and over again with animals and nonhumans.

这听上去很有道理,不过这个发现已经在动物,以及非人类身上得到了反复的验证。

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And through this way behaviorists have developed token economies where they get nonhuman animals to do interesting things for seemingly arbitrary rewards like poker chips.

通过这种方式,行为主义者们发明了代币法,他们用一种特定的类似于扑克筹码的奖励,来训练非人类动物。

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From that standpoint, from that theoretical standpoint, comes a methodological approach which is, if they're all the same then you could study human learning by studying nonhuman animals.

从这个理论观点中，可以得出一种研究方法,即，如果人类与动物并无差别,那你就能通过研究非人类动物的学习过程,来研究人类的学习过程。

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One thing it's important for is clever developmental psychologists have used habituation as a way to study people, creatures who can't talk like nonhuman animals, and young babies.

原因之一就是,聪明的发展心理学家们将习惯化,作为研究人类，研究诸如非人类动物或是婴儿这样,无法进行言语表达的生物，的一种方式。

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