PSY362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jean Piaget, Mox Fuel, Brian Close
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We are answering can they reason, can they figure things out given an unique environment, can they adapt to that environment given there stimulus. The frontal lobe is not as large in other species. Dolphins- have very large brains but don"t have good frontal lobes. 2 types of spatial reasoning tasks: solving a maze with blocked choices: solving a maze with hidden choices: Tolman and honzik study: it was a maze the animal started in a go box and then at the end box there was bait the middle was where they could wander and the triangle and square was the maze, *** showed that rats can solve this problem spatially and learned all three ways. Tools= anything/ object that is a extension of that particular organism that they use to obtain something that is favorable is a tool : first determined by jane goodall. Primates & finches(birds) use tools to get food first determined by jane goodall.
