PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chameleon, Positive Tone, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Week 7 lecture #5: monday june 13, 2016. The problem is that we keep assuming that there is a point at which we became human. This is about as unlikely as there being a precise wavelength at which the color spectrum turns from orange into red. The typical proposition of how this happened is that of a mental breakthrough a miraculous spark that made us radically different. But if we have learned anything from more than 50 years of research on chimpanzees and other intelligent animals, it is that the wall between human and animal cognition is like a swiss cheese. We have a misconception that suddenly, we"re all humans and better than our primates. Homo sapiens had smaller brains but walked on two feet. Messy transitions, we"re different than them but the boundary is very fuzzy. It was and continues to be a major challenge, for sure.
