PSY362H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abundant Number, Guppy, Honey Bee
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Cognition process by which animals acquire, process, store and act on information presented in the environment. Morgan"s cannon we can"t interpret an act as an output of a higher psychical faculty if we can interpret it from a lower psychical faculty. Higher faculty: reasoning, planning, insight, conscious awareness of causality. Necessary to test for alternative hypothesis to find true explanation of a behavior. Cow should drop more nuts when traffic is heavy. Cow drops nuts on crossing only when there is traffic light. Or, the crow developed the behavior based on an association b/w stimulus and outcome acquired by chance. Stimulus response associations repeatedly will cause learning: function. Does the behavior aid in survival of the animal"s gene: evolution. Bat directs sonar beam and perceive the returning sound wave to detect the location of prey(moth) Causation: search phase not sure prey location, lower frequency of sonar beam, approach phase target selection.
