Pepperberg (parrot learning) Study Guide COMPLETE 2023/2024

Pepperberg (parrot learning) Study Guide COMPLETE 2023/2024This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on 04-11-2023 16:20:54 GMT -05:00 1. What is the aim?: To see whether a parrot could utilize vocal labels to demon- strate symbolic understanding of concepts "same" or "different". 2. What was the research method and design?: An animal case study involving one subject who was trained and tested over a couple of years. A laboratory experiment that utilized observations 3. What is the sample?: An African grey parrot named Alex. Had been involved in prior research on communication and cognitions for around ten years. During the day, he had free access to all areas of the laboratory and at night he was confined to a wire cage. Fed a diet suitable for his species and given toys to play with 4. What was the sampling technique?: Opportunity sample 5. What did Alex know prior to the experiment?: To use vocal English labels to discriminate more than 80 different objects + to respond to questions concerning categorical concepts of color and shape, was trained + tested on relational con- cepts of 'same and different'. Understood the colors - rose(red), blue, yellow, green, and gray Understood the materials ("mah mah") - paper, raw hide, wood and cork Understood the shapes : two-sides(football), three-sides(triangle), four-sides(square), five-sides(pentagonal) 6. Explain the early training: