Beginning in the 1920s, some chimpanzees were raised by psychologists in their homes as they would raise a child. What were these researchers attempting to discover?

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The researchers were attempting to discover whether chimpanzees could learn language by being raised in a human-like environment. This was famously attempted by psychologist and linguist, Dr. Herbert Terrace, who raised a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky in a human-like environment to see if he could acquire language.

Beginning in the 1920s, Some Chimpanzees Were Raised by Psychologists