PSYC 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Binocular Rivalry, Animal Consciousness, Metacognition
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Betty: crow who changed a tool to enable them to do a task: some form of insight/problem solving is in this animal, experiment should have been: food placed in a cylinder with a straight and curved wire. Unable to do so with the straight wire but can do so with curved wire. However, experimenters forgot to put curved wire in the experiment. Crow never seen curved wire, but used the cylinder and the straight wire to curve the wire and successfully get the food. Insight: binocular rivalry, language, metacognition, self-awareness, theory of mind, global workspace. Binocular rivalry: monkeys experience rivalry and blindsight, trained to press one button that represents vertical and another button that represents horizontal lines. Then used their training to press the correct button that corresponded to the lines: no apparent difference with humans (rivalry research is done in monkeys) In humans, defined as how you verbally report it.
