PSYC 205- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 67 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 205
• Professor: Janet Hiebert

Document Summary

Compare and contrast the research approaches used by experimental psychologists and behavioural ecologists. Describe the current state of the field of comparative cognition. Cognition: knowledge or thinking; how animals acquire, store, and process information. Comparative cognition: a field of study that examines and compares cognition among animal species, including humans. Can be called comparative psychology or animal cognition. What makes us different: darwin was the first comparative cognition expert. If you can understand other species this says a lot about humans. Today(cid:859)s le(cid:272)ture is relati(cid:448)ely short (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e to also dis(cid:272)uss the (cid:272)ourse details. It o(cid:374)ly highlights so(cid:373)e of the topi(cid:272)s that you(cid:859)ll (cid:271)e readi(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out. Future lectures will be more detailed, and will often provide examples that are not found in the textbook reading. Also, future le(cid:272)ture outli(cid:374)es (cid:373)ay (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e as (cid:858)(cid:449)ordy(cid:859), allo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g you to a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ely parti(cid:272)ipate i(cid:374) your own note-taking (and learning!