PSYO 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Amniote, Classical Conditioning, Anthrozoology
20 Jan 2016
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Play not correlated with phylogeny or sociality. If you"re about to fall forward, the corrected movements are controlled by the cerebellum. Drunks or hit in the head affects the cerebellum so you fall over. Birds that work or fly in difficult obstacle etc. When you have a learning task that requires repetition etc. Classical conditioning is also partially controlled by the cerebellum. Kids with cerebellar deficits have slight issues where we wouldn"t expect it. Iq is generally low but they have important skills verbal iq is very high. Cerebellum is more important in social things than we thought. Weakly electric fish use it for orientation and presentation. One of the few fish that has higher vertebrate level social behaviour. They"ll play soccer with a little social ball. Behaviour is very costly in energy sociobiologists would say it makes no sense that you would spend energy on something that you wouldn"t benefit from.
