PSYC 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vervet Monkey, Ontogeny, Social Cognition
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Mechanism: social categories/concepts, transitive inference, recursion, communication, neurobiology. Category: a group of things defined by a set of shared observable properties/features, every animal on planet has a category i. e. red ball ball, red, circular, bouncy. Concept: an abstract mental representation that is derived from specific examples and generalized to broader terms, rich and higher level, i. e. red ball fun to play with, not dangerous, simultaneously a red ball not a green ball. Relational qualities in comparison to other i. e. meerkats: categories understanding of each relatedness would be individual family specific. More difficult to generalize, just know these rooted structure. These two are brothers, therefore i predict that they will behave in a certain way because that is what. If a > b and b >c then a>c. Explain why we have a massive explosion in brain size language took over and rapid selection everywhere. Hard to find in non-human animals, this is really important for social relationships.
