PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Galago, Embodied Cognition, Anthropomorphism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Don Dedrick

Document Summary

Rst increase in brain size: change in diet (increase in calories) Second increase in brain size: social demands. Crudely: you need a big brain to play tit-for-tat in a population of 150. Tit-for-tat: way that we keep track of cooperators and non-cooperators (and we deal with them in appropriate ways) We look at both because we know apes have a similar lineage to us, but corvids don"t. However, corvids still show many similar behaviours to us. Convergence thought to be strongest evidence for adaptation. Some people argue language is an adaptation for humans. Other people say it is a byproduct of some other reason. Selected for vs byproduct of (ex. our ability to do calculus) Imagination and prospection crucial: they are probably the reasons we dominant . Video of them crouching into a pool of water (chimps are not supposed to like getting wet) imagina4on: produc4on of alternate scenarios not available in percep4on prospec4on: imagine possible future events.