PSYC 311 1st Edition Lecture 20ApeGenius Video - Chimps using tools o Filling the tube with water to get the peanut from the bottom o Using sticks to fish termites/grubs out of mounds Gooddallo Making a spear to nab a “bush baby” Use a stick and sharpen it with their teeth Bush babies live in holes in trees and are nocturnal Use of weapons by a species that is not human - Monkey grape “slot machine” o Learning by imitation facilitates culture – no longer uniquely human - Jane Gooddall and chimp emotionso One of the first to discover that chimps use tools (chimp fishing)o Chimps are hunters - More sophisticated way to search for termites o Use a large stick like a shovel, to dig a hole in the ground o Then a small probe to fish out the termites- Communicative relationships – asking for help, revengeo Intentions seem important in chimp culture Sense of justiceo Cooperate with people Collaborate with one another? - Spatial understanding and learning numberso Each successive number took longer and longer to teach the chimp o Kanzi the Bonobos understands language Susan Savage-Rumbaugh tests his understanding of 3000+ english vocabulary words Never directly taught – just picked up on it - Impulse – always reached for more M&M’s, could not control their urge to reach for more o They did not get the bigger pile, their peer did o Impulse studies in children – the longer children resisted temptation, the higher their SAT scores were years later - Apes have sophisticated social systems, can cooperate, understand symbols, and have culture o Why can’t ape culture expand, like human culture has?o Kanzi uses language and symbols – when he wants something No ability to make “small talk” o Apes are able to tell what others are thinking Hiding one banana and the chimp goes around to get the one the researcher cannot see and will not take away Chimps skip the needless steps to get their treat from the see through box; understand cause and effect - Children were predisposed to copy, even when they could see that it was unneccessaryo View researcher as a grown up/teacher; expect to be taught Apes do not teach each other - Apes don’t understand/respond to pointing like human children do - Do not understand pointing as a type of communication - No evidence that apes share goals or commitmentso They work together and collaborate, but do not share goals Have no passion to cheer eachother on o Humans work together (“the triangle”) toward a common
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