PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Japanese Macaque, Animal Culture, Primatology
7 Apr 2015
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Social learning of preferences: food preferences, learning in the womb: trimester, learning after birth: Rat pups prefer foods ingested by mothers when pregnant. Human infants prefer foods consumed by mothers in 3rd o. Rats sniffing each others" breath cinnamon or cacao. Serves an adaptive function at a certain time in development. Frans dewaal: the ape and the sushi master: cultural reflections of a. Primatologist: the ape and the sushi master: cultural reflections of a primatologist, sushi making analogy (master and apprentice, examples of culturally-transmitted behaviours: knowledge and habits acquired from others". Difficult to weed out what"s being passed on through genetics and what comes from learning b/c these species live together for so long: japanese animal research . Techniques & theories: provisioning, naming, provisioning: of food there, and sit there and watch them. Helps habituate animals to your: naming: presence keep track of who"s who, not as much human/animal dualism.
