PSY362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Visual Angle, Spatial Cognition, Conifer Cone
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Concept: some indication of what it is your actually studying. Set up details and structure of what you are going to do for the presenation: example: Introduction; historical perspective (usually a few key pieces of information) Include articles and material that is going to support the topic. Have a plan of how you are going to work together as a group. Notion of what animals can perceive within their environment. Some animals have unique sets of navigational skills. First thing we have to consider is the basic psychological mechanism that enables animals to do this. Need to look for different kinds of mechanisms. Look at how animals search their environment and look for particular landmarks. More straight forward cues: dead reckoning, landmarks, beacons, environmental land shape. Where or not animals are able to combine different forms of navigation together. Whereby sails navigate through their environment without any additional visual cues.
