PSYCH 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Edward Thorndike, George Romanes, Animal Cognition
04/10/18 lecture 19: Learning and cognition
• Benefits of calorie restriction
o Lived longer
o Brain better
o Lower rates of diabetes
• Old okes do’t orall eperiee liial deetia ad Alzheier's, ut do lose
neurons and build up beta-amyloid and have iron deposits in their brains like old people.
Thus, old monkeys are still a good model for understanding the decline in memory that
occurs with age.
o Brains of monkeys get old and show same signs as old people
o Display panel with 9 lights for testing Delayed Matching to Sample
o Old monkey makes the incorrect choice
o Can do the same kind of test with a human
• What is intelligence?
o Social Darwinism
o George Romanes (1882)
o Aial Itelligee
o Empathy, altruism, insight versus Just the Clever Hans effect
o Clever Hans and Wilhelm Von Osten
▪ Horse as just paig attetio to oer’s ues
• William of Ockham
o Oa’s Razor
o Etia o sat ultipliada praeter eessitare
o Do not make more complicated than is necessary
o Also called The Law of Parsimony
• Edward Thorndike
o Trial and Error Learning
• I. Pavlov
o Classical Conditioning
• B.F. Skinner
o Operant conditioning
▪ Give treat when do something that want
• Wolfgang Kohler
o Isight learig
o Gestalt psychology
o 1925: the mentality of apes
• Bowden Box
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