Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Waggle Dance, Jane Goodall, Kanzi

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Kanzi was a male bonobo: he understood symbols better than his mother because kanzi was introduced to human language as a toddler. But scientists argued that although kanzi could learn words and simple word combinations, he could not understand language. Etiologist: a scientist that studies animal behaviour: ex. 4 f"s: food, friend, foe, and finding mate. Communication: any behaviour on the part of one organism intended to influence the thoughts, emotions, or behaviour of another organism: communication can take the form of: facial expressions, body postures, movements, odors, glowing, flashing lights, vocal/speech. Food: honey bee waggle dance: honeybees perform a dance that tell other bees about location of source of nectar or water. It communicates 2 pieces of information: distance and direction. But it cannot communicate what they wil find: waggle up: direction of sun, waggle l/r: angle from the sun, waggle length: distance. Foe: alarm call: vocalize to warn other members of the same group about approaching predators, ex.