PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Megaphone, Episodic Memory
23 Sep 2016
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Uniquely human abilities: social learning and culture, mental time travel, insight, theory of mind. Risk of injury: especially in tumble/wrestling play. Karl groos (1898) play is practice for species-typical skills. What ways does wrestling ply build species-typical skills: it teaches fighting technique to be used in actual competition, develop social normative skills. What was your favorite game to play as a child consider what skills it helped build: fort building shelter, guess who facial recognition, deduction skills, etc. Games and sports vary by culture, but all cultures have some form of play with evolutionary implications: imitation. Seeing another individual do a behavior leads to the observer doing the behavior. Stimulus enhancement seeing another individual interact with an object makes the object more attractive to the observer. Goal enhancement seeing another individual enjoy a reward makes that reward more attractive to the observer.
