Imitation of actions is widespread in the animal kingdom, but the mental capacities thereby implied vary greatly according to the adaptive function of copying. Behavioral synchrony in social species has many possible benefits, including minimizing predation risk and using food resources optimally, but ...
What role does biology play in an individual's behavior? Are people really free-thinking individuals who consciously choose behaviors, or are they predestined to engage in certain behaviors while avoi The type of learning that involve...
has been influential in recent theorizing about human mental evolution. It is important to distinguish among distinct versions of this general idea, for they predict different cognitive consequences and apply to different species of animal. Empirical support is strong in primates for links between (i...
Lastly, as mentioned earlier, animals can also serve as excellent training partners. Animal-assisted interventions have shown significant benefits across cognitive, psychological, and core characteristics of autism [53]. Specifically, horseback riding, besides its positive effects on cognitive, motor, and...
I thought at first they were getting ready to tell what science was going to be about–physics, biology, chemistry–but that wasn’t it. The answer was in the teacher’s edition of the book: the answer I was trying to learn is that “energy makes it move.” ...
By imitating(模仿) animals, the dancer believes he can gain a power and make it useful.To dance in imitation of the animal which is going tobehunted istobecome onewith them. Sachspoints out that societies ofthiskind donotreally understand theconnectionbetween causeand effect.Theyreallybelievethe...
More recently, cognition has arrived in behavioral biology, where it has sometimes been taken to be a hypothesis for how an animal solves a problem or organizes its behavior: to be tested against other hypotheses such as ‘learning’ or ‘just lucky coincidence’. It is not. Anyone who asks...
Memes could travel wordlessly even before language was born. Plain mimicry is enough to replicate knowledge—how to chip an arrowhead or start a fire. Among animals, chimpanzees and gorillas are known to acquire behaviors by imitation. Some species of songbirds learn their songs, or at least son...
To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours. Pattern (MLE) To arrange, to organise, to fix. Pattern Of or in accordance with a usual pattern, or type; model; ideal. Pattern Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that...
snake.It shifts its body shape and its movements to resemble these toxic animals and when mimicking the sea snake which has yellow and black bands, the octopus also changes color to have these colored bands.This evidence that it may decide which animal to mimic based on which predator is ...