Humans and Descriptions Flashcards
Harry Harlow
Cloth vs wire mothers to test contact comfort, Bowden box (curiosity as a motivational drive),
John Bowlby
Theory of attachment, biological predisposition to form relationships
Konrad Lorenz
Imprinting (birds)
Hans Spitz
Hospitalization syndrome, deprivation syndrome, failure to thrive
Anna Freud
daughter of Sigmund Freud, detachment in orphans from WW2 (unable to form new relationships)
John Watson
conventional parenting idea (before animal research): don’t hold your baby, you’ll spoil them
George Romanes
1884, Social Darwinism, argued for animal intelligence, believed curiosity, insight, and empathy were components of intelligence
Wilhelm Von Osten
1907, Clever Hans
William of Ockham
Occam’s Razor (Law of Parsimony)
Edward Thorndike
Trial and Error Learning
Pavlov
Classical Conditioning
BF Skinner
Operant Conditioning
Wolfgang Kohler
“insight learning” and gestalt theory
Testuro Matsuzawa
University of Kyoto, Rhesus monkeys addition task and betting on confidence, tool use: rock hammer and anvil
Gordon Gallop
Mirror recognition test
Emil Menzel and Sally Boysen
Object constancy
Frans de Waal
Sense of fairness
Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney
Vervets make different calls to warn of different predators (leopards, eagles, snakes)
Rene Descartes
1637, “I think therefore I am”, language is the exclusive domain of humans
Samuel Pepys
believes apes can learn to speak/sign, understand language
W and L Kellog
raised a chimp with their son to see if it would develop language/speaking abilities (it didn’t)
Hayes
raised a chimp called Vicki, she could produce 4 sounds
Yerkes
1925, apes cannot speak but can use nonvocal signs to communicate
Allen and Beatrice Gardner
Washoe, the first signing chimpanzee