Psychology 2134A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Waggle Dance, Diana Monkey, Animal Communication

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Matsuki

Document Summary

Human adults have difficulty learning a language. Syntax is what separates human language from animal communication systems. Ethologist: scientist who stuies animal behaviour: refer to the above as the four f"s food, foe, friend and finding a mate. Any behaviour on the part of one organism intended to influence the emotions, thoughts, or behaviours of another organism. Can be in the form of facial expressions, body postures, movements, odors, flashing lights (firefly) Most communication is directed at a conspecific, but interspecies communication also happens. Conspecific: a member of the same species. Von frisch: discovered the honeybee waggle dance in mid 20th century. When return to nest, hundreds of hive mates gather around and she"ll perform a figure eight dance. Does this 100 times or more as hive mates fly to gather nectar she just informed them about. The waggle dance gives hive mates info on direction and distance.