PSYCH 241H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Almost Surely, Spatial Memory, Social Animal
2 Jan 2018
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Object knowledge is evident from very early life. Infants look longer at an impossible event than at a possible event represent their continued existence and some of their properties. How about our ape relatives? some physical domains. Human children (2. 5 years) and apes (chimpanzees and orangutans) were tested on. They show the same results, but the apes point instead. Apes and children did the same in causality. In terms of the social domains, the same subjects were tested on social learning, communication (including comprehension, pointing cups, and attentional state), and the theory of mind (including gaze following, intentions) Children are more sensitive to instructions than apes (recall the plastic and. Children were able to obtain the object from inside the plastic tube, but the apes. Social learning opaque box experiment) could not.
