PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Equal Exchange, Relational Aggression, 18 Months

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Erica Refling

Document Summary

Week 17: self and others: a comparative perspective. Theory of mind in non-humans: less dominant chips will approach food: When new dominant chimp brought in: when the dominant chimp did not know where the food was, the focal chimp went to get the food, covids (crows, ravens, blue jays) move cache (food) when seen hiding. Knower-guesser differentiation ravens: by thomas bugnyar (2011, demonstrating mental attribution in non-human animals. Exploiting the birds" tendency to remember and pilfer food catches they have seen others make. Ravens employ different behavioural tactics according to the information their competitors had during caching: findings. Recognizing the other"s perception and/or knowledge state. Ability to memorize the other"s line of sight. Ravens go for the food that they are in competition for. Ravens will go to the food later if they know that another raven did not see the food.