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- Edward L. Thorndike was one of the first psychologists to study in the laboratory the mental abilities of animals. Although he found animals able to learn to operate "problem boxes" he concluded, that they learned by gradual trial and error, rather than by reasoning or by insight.
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Nov 1, 2017 · Cameron Buckner, assistant professor of philosophy at UH, says empirical evidence suggests a variety of animal species are able to make rational decisions, despite the lack of a human-like language. Previous research has shown that animals can remember specific events, use tools and solve problems.
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Clever experiments with monkeys and human infants show that they share thinking processes once thought to be in the minds of humans alone. Babies only 3-4 days old can tell the difference between two languages such as Dutch and Japanese. When the infants hear someone saying sentences in Dutch, they express their interest by sucking rapidly on the n...
One big mystery about human cognition is how babies decide when one word ends and another begins when they listen to an adult’s stream of speech. Experiments done in 1996 revealed that kids as young as 8 months are capable of performing a kind of statistical analysis that seems pretty amazing. The babies listen to a continuous stream of consonants ...
Additional tests by Hauser and other researchers reveal that monkeys can count up to four. The human ability to count to higher numbers apparently came only after we evolved language and developed words to describe quantities like 25 and 1,000. Some human cultures still don’t use large numbers. The Hadza people, hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, for ex...
It underlies techniques used in animal training, pedagogy, parenting, and psychotherapy. Jennifer Murtoff. Animal learning - Insight, Reasoning, Behavior: Köhler’s best known contribution to animal psychology arose from his studies of problem solving in a group of captive chimpanzees.
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How do animals use the information they obtain from their environment to move through space, time their activities, assess quantity, or remember the past?
Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals, including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psychology.
Jan 8, 2008 · How do animals learn; do they only have associative learning processes, or do they also learn through trial-and-error, play, insight, or social imitation? How do animals solve problems; do they engage in logical reasoning, causal reasoning, future planning?
Nov 1, 2017 · Researcher suggests rational decision-making doesn't require language. Previous studies have shown that animals can remember specific events, use tools and solve problems. But exactly what that...
