PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Metacognition, Joint Attention, Hominidae

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

Document Summary

Humans use mental representations of states of affairs to reason about what they ought to do (imagination) and what possible future and alternative events can be anticipated or brought into existence (prospection) Don"t have any evidence that animals do this. Cognition that is decouples from motor control; not under stimulus control. Can nd some of this in the animal world, but much more evidence in homo sapiens. Examples: planning for the future; considering alternative courses of action in the present. Have tried to show that there are precursors of human behaviour in animals. Ex. we believe that humans possess morality dogs we punish not because we expect. In play, dogs learn what other dogs expect of them and are punished if they don"t conform them to have morality but because we want the behaviour to stop (bekoff) Not conforming to human expectations, but other conspeci cs expectations. Sandboxing: create an area sandboxed (i. e. removed from) the natural area.