Carolina Tovar Borrero-D4Lori Santo’s talk about her research with monkeys was really insightful into how similar we are to the capuchin monkeys her and her team worked with. In seeing the patterns of the monkeys with their economic situations it was easy to correlate those with our own human experiences. Santo said she prefers to work with monkeys because they are very similar to people yet their “stripped out of all their stuff”, meaning the complications that we, as humans, bring into research. She compares the capuchins to infants in that they have no previous teachings and lack experience. Santo talks about the monkey’s theory of mind which was a subject covered in chapter 10 of our text book as a child’s ability to understand other’s perspective. This was able to help the capuchins with their ability to understand which researcher was able to provide for them the best deal of their silver washers with the amount offood given. Using the theory of mind the monkeys took in their options and evaluated them to the understanding that the researcher could, and most likely would, trick the monkeys into how much food they would be receiving after their payment. It was interesting to hear Santo describe our human race as “uniquely smart” yet when under a specific circumstance the mistakes we make are anticipated. Once we have reviewed our circumstance and are put under the same situation we are still likely to produce the same mistakes. This immediately brought me to the connection of our current topics in chapter six and to E.L. Thorndike’s law of effect. Yet another law in psychology simply stating that if a behavior results in a reward we are more likely to continue that behavior when presented the same stimulus. The experiment with the cat inside the box being tantalized with food outside ofthe box gave the cat options on how to retrieve its reward, the food. This is similar to the process of our human mind when deciding how to reach our reward; which is the initial question in which Santo’s studies began. Why are human beings error bound? With monkeys it was became a measurable question provided by the economic system made for them during