PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Border Collie, Panbanisha, Weather-Related Cancellation
5 Nov 2018
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PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Border Collie, Panbanisha, Weather-Related Cancellation
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Can receive 12 points from participation credits. Final exams can be rescheduled with the dean of students. Quiz #2 is 12/5 (open note, open book) 12/3: last class will be used if snow day or review session for the final. Rico the border collie: learned 1k words for different toys, learn words through mutual. If you know all of the other words, you can use process of elimination to figure exclusivity out the new word combination of signs. Koko the gorilla and washo the chimpanzee : learned 100 signs, produced basic. Kanzi, panbanisha, teco the bonobos monkeys: impressive comprehension with 72% Limitations of animal learning: successful understanding of commands, learned through lexigrams. Limited vocabularies: in comparison, a 4 year old child knows 10k words to. The monkeys got attention many hours a day trying to teach them, and they still couldn"t perform like the human children. Mechanisms: animals can"t use the same mechanisms that human children.
