Animal Intelligence Flashcards
1
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Confirmation bias
A
Tendency to seek out evidence that confirms a belief while ignoring the contrary evidence
2
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Linguistic relativity hypothesis
A
The hypothesis that differences among languages cause differences in the thoughts of the speakers
3
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Animal cognition / comparative cognition
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Study of animal thought processes
4
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Language criteria - Symbolic
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spoken, written and signed words represent actions, ideas, events
5
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Language criteria - displacement
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refer to objects not present, events in the past or future
6
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Language criteria - syntax and grammar
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Syntax and grammatical - word order and rules
7
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Language criteria - generative
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Combining arbitrary symbols to produce an infinite number of meaningful statements
