B + B exam part D content

Question 1

Define abstract concepts?

Answer 1

existing in thought or as an idea outside of physical attributes

Question 2

What research by Wasserman offers support for the fact that animals can understand abstract concepts?

Answer 2

Wasserman used pigeons and taught them to identify long and short distances on computer screens.

Question 3

What is meant by social umwelt?

Answer 3

Umbrella term for how the environment shapes an individuals behaviour

Question 4

What is social learning?

Answer 4

Learning that is influenced by observations of others

Question 5

What did Fisher and Hinde (1949) suggest was a national example of social learning?

Answer 5

Humming birds being able to open milk bottles that was left outside on doorsteps as reports in certain areas soon became widespread over the entire UK

Question 6

What else could suggest the hummingbirds behaviour in the 1940s?

Answer 6

Social enhancement

Question 7

What did Maguire et al (2006) identify in London Taxi drivers?

Answer 7

A more developed hippocampus due to vast knowledge of the streets of London

Question 8

Define spatial learning?

Answer 8

The process of storing, organising and using information about our environment