Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hawaiian Language, Nonverbal Communication, Papaya

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

Document Summary

What makes us more special than any other animal: language. We use language in a way that other animals do not. We are able to solve problems and abstract problems in a way that other animals are not capable of education. We are the only species that devotes a great deal of our life to learning things and. Human beings are not the only species that communicates via sound. Chimpanzee"s will stop bark off a branch and use that to get termites. Crows will place nuts on the road for cars to drive over and open. Animals as well as humans use tools and design tools. We"re the only animal that uses language and is capable of learning language. Some animals will send out vocal signals that communicate predators are around. There is a difference between animal communication and human language: a use of grammar animals do not learn grammatical structure.