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| A european horse that appeared very intelligent, however, It very insightful to anticipation cues shown by the experimenter |
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| the process in which you form concepts |
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| we look at world through concepts |
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| The chimp couldn't overcome the automatic food response when presented with food, but could develop a strategy when presented with numbers in lieu of food |
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| What does symbolic thinking mean for our experience in the world? |
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| We examine the world through concepts |
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| Chimp and automatic response experiment |
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Chimps were presented with two bowls-
Whatever choice they made, went to their friend, and they got the remainder.
The chimps couldn't override the automatic response and choose the smaller amount to get the larger remainder.
When presented with numbers, the chimps had no problem with this strategy |
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A mental representation used for variety of cognitive functions
Memory//Remaining and Decision Making//Language// Beliefs |
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Do infants for categories?
Showed infants pictures of a category until exhausted.
Then showed a picture of something NOT in the category, and observed if the infant DIShabituated. |
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| Perceptual Categorization |
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| Perception of physical similarities and differences |
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| Kids focus on Appearance for categorization |
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kids have a hard time moving past surface level features for ID of stimuli.
A dog when wearing a cat mask is thought to be a cat |
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tried to examine the defining features of categories:
thought it was a similar problem to family resemblance, with probabilistic similarities and continuity overlap |
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