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Intelligence
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(brain weight 1 body weight )%
What is
intelligence ?
Why study ?
animal
intelligence
① Intellectual curiosity
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understand them awarding available
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we of
want to
② Relevance to humans available for intelligence
↳ humans evolved from animals → reveal wimmen features
③ Animal welfare ③ Macphail 4982 ) The null
hypothesis of intelligence :
↳
help humans take in No difference in intellectual capacity of vertebrates other than humans
of animals when they captivity
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care are
The Distribution of Intelligence Ways of
amusing animal
intelligence
① Adaptability
② Speed of learning
③ Information processing
{ popular justifications for this ammunition : ① Adaptability
① Evolution to adapt behaviour to
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: Animals arranged awarding to their phylogenetic storm Barnett 4970 ) :
Intelligence means the ability circumstances
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learning better adaptable
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faster at t at
remembering =
more
① Role of Evolution
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Dimwit to compare spines innate differences
Animal represented using the
kingdom phylogenetic Hale
not a chain scanner rank ② Speed of Learning
their intelligence learning : when an experience results in a
relatively permanent change in the reaction
•
Evolution can only explain why animals person to a situation
different intellectual abilities
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Water mace task
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Ran us Humans in male
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thats trained to swim to visible platform → searched location even when
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No Ayresome in rate at which animals learn platform was
missing
Angerminer 4984 ) Information processed :
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mammals , birds . Aih respond to get reward ① Platform =
escape
Papowwk 11911 ) ② spatial location dependent on ones from male room
Baby 15 months ) turn head for reward
→ faster learning in animals than humans
.
: not suited to look at speed of learning as an
index of animal
intelligence
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Greed or learning influenced by how it is measured Why is
learning important ?
Indifferent blndinerenr species * Need to learn how to runire :
food
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Shelter
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Need to adapt to environment
your
learning is :
long lasting change
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in behaviour that results from
↳ shows context outhits animal
learning experience
Bitkrman 4965 )
PART 2
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( untamed variables :
faiths that differ b In spines that may be responsible for
differences in
learning Simple forms of
Learning
Systematic variation : train animals on same task over a variety of different IU . Non -
associative ( no
pairing stimulus at behaviour )
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lundin ons -
Habituation : repeatedly exposing an animal to a stimulus -
stops responding
to stimulus
③ Information processing theory -
Sensitisation :
repeat stimulus tr your response to it .
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integrated wl other info t some h -
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Pavlov
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memory
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animals deal wl
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theory info in similar
way reflects their intelligence