PSY362H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Design Of Experiments, Cracked Nuts, Animal Cognition
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Mechanisms by which animals acquire, process, store, and act on information from the environment. Studies on cognition across the animal kingdom in nature and labs. Seasonal migration: 8000 miles, exact path, without getting any fancy device like gps. Seasonal migration: travel very far distances without any help of fancy device. Tool-use: crawl grabs stick with its beak to poke out the worm from the tree trunk= using a tool to achieve its goal=getting a food. Sense of justice: monkey has a unhappy facial expression. When its friend got more reward than him (when they did the same task), the monkey got angry = showing its ability to compare the amount and understand the concept of injustice and self. ***anything that was covered in lecture will be on the test. Nothing from the textbook that"s not covered in class will not be tested! There will be 8 long answer questions: 4 memorization, 3 adaptation, 1 synthesis questions.
