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Primate Cognition. Social Learning Mechanisms  Mechanisms  Stimulus or Social Enhancement (instrumental)  Drawn to object/conspecific, learn via trial.

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1 Primate Cognition

2 Social Learning Mechanisms

3  Mechanisms  Stimulus or Social Enhancement (instrumental)  Drawn to object/conspecific, learn via trial and error  Observational Learning (classical)  UR caused by a conspecific  Mimicry (“Monkey See-Monkey Do”)  Copy for copying sake  Imitation (copy to get goal)  Copy to get the same goal as the demonstrator

4 Theory of Mind Understanding that others have mental processes that may differ from one’s own Emotions Knowledge Visual Perspective

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6 Knowledge Attribution Povinelli (1991)  Knower – sees food being hidden  Guesser – outside of room Stage 1: As above Stage 2: Knower wears hat Stage 3: Guesser stays in room with a bagged head

7 Chimpanzees (Great Apes) Rhesus Monkeys (New World)

8 Alternative Chimps discriminated between the two situations based on subtle differences in what the “guesser” and “knower” did. “Choose the one with eyes open during hiding”

9 “Begging Experiment” Povinelli (1999) Beg from “seeing” vs. “nonseeing”  Front vs. Back – Yes  Pail Beside vs. Over Head - No  Averted Eyes vs. Over Shoulder Look – No  Blindfold Mouth vs. Blindfold Eyes - No

10 “Chimps Fail Begging Experiment”

11 “Elephants Pass Begging Experiment” However, this doesn’t imply elephants can “mind-read”

12 Mark Test Gallup’s Mark Test (Great Apes)

13 Mark Test Mirror self-recognition:  Chimp, Bonobo – Yes  Orang-utan, Gorilla – Yes  Elephants – Maybe?  Dolphins –Maybe?  Pigeons –No

14 Human versus Chimps Mind-reading Pointing Impulsive Cooperation Imitation Vis Memory Aud Memory Deception Poor No More Trainable Short-cuts Better Good Poor Good Yes Less Spontaneous Slavishly Good Better Excellent Skill ChimpHuman

15 Deception Learned by Accident, Intentional, or Species-Specific?  Chimps may act differently based on whether something is found in another’s line of sight Chimps  Food-storing birds re-caching if watched by a conspecific (also if they seem themselves in a mirror)

16 Chimp Deception

17 Re-Caching By Crows


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