PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indigo Bunting, Puzzle Video Game, Almost Surely

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Mathieu Le Corre

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Lecture 8: seems that we must have experience of the world to have knowledge of the world, plato thought that our senses are so weak that our knowledge of the world does not come from our. An old philosophical question: no various philosophers. Objectives: show you that buntings have innate learning mechanism that identifies stars in the sky, and that computes north from center of rotation, show you how bunting navigation learning mechanism is a model for core knowledge. Just follow elders: in northern hemisphere, the center of rotation of stars in night sky indicates north . How baby buntings learn where to fly to: participants: 4-10 day old buntings, from august to september, reared in planetarium where emlen can control appearance of night sky. Controlling the babies" experience: three rearing conditions (3 groups of baby buntings, exposure to sky rotating around north star, exposure to sky rotating around other star (betelgeuse, no exposure to any sky.