Psychology 3440F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Umber, Probability Distribution, Frontal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3440F/G
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

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Dcn nov. 10th development of arithmetic proficiency. Everyday life involves knowing numbers (many instances of decision making that need numbers/quantities: origins of a number sense (experience or innate representations?) One view: develop a number sense because we are brought up to understand. But an examination of the natural world shows that it"s not just humans and use quantities. Ex. a group of chimps decisions to invade another group take into account numbers/size of groups before they attack. Female lions have the ability to listen and identify the calls of other groups and make a decision to attack or retreat. Evolutionary history numbers have a long evolutionary history. Birds looked at the number of dots and the one with the same number had the seeds underneath. Don"t have the same geometrical configuration but the same numerical configuration. New zealand robins are on an island and therefore have no fear of other.