Amarjeet's Great Links: The Psychology of Animals

Contrary to what most people think, the animals manifest interesting psychological features. Considering the available data and the fact that animal psychology is still in its development phase, the animals 'mind' may be premature to provide a map, although many researchers have attempted to do so and there is some understanding will be a success Education to study the behavior of animals and animal mind. However, behaviorists, according to him the most as the animal 'man' and will consider it unnecessary, learning and behavioral changes in animals and a variety of stimuli Association of the ratings can be fully explained. Many psychologists believe that the rating of the animals and their behavior, intentionality is not only an instinctual.

This means that the animals simply follow the pattern of stimulus and response, and instinctively using their conscious mind to behave a certain way rather than the actions of the behavior pattern of error in the trial of is. This is what Konrad Lorenz, one of the base as fixed action patterns or FAPs are considered and it is believed that some FAPs are standard throughout the animal kingdom stimuli of the ethologist. Obviously if the mind is the brain, because the soul is the body, mind and the concept itself may be problematic, but even though we disapprove of the human mind can not, we will be considered without direct reference to explain how animal behavior. How far will this situation?

Subject of great interest in recent years has become the animal mind. Animals can think and feel? Intelligent animals? In some sense, you can apply them to solve problems? Positive answers to these questions will allow anyone with pets at home. Although animals seem to understand our mood, they may be exactly what I / facial expressions and read body after, and in many cases the animals are about problems with comprehension, are able to resolve. If a caged bird cage to move to the outside by pressing a lever that will be insightful, or trial and error behavior? Animals are not able to speak our human language and animal language we do not understand that there is a gap in communication and the primary reason for which we are acquainted, whether the animals 'emotional experiences' and to use resourcefulness to resolve may be unable to do everything that he had no problems, but the trial and error.

The problem with us humans is that we judge other animals, with only a tool - language. We are the emotions, understanding and talking about feelings and it is impossible to gauge the animal mind, but until we understand animal language, and if we understand the expression of some animals, we can not go to other species in mind. But only because we have limited understanding and knowledge of our animals, it is unwise to believe that animals are very dismissive and just use trial and error method will answer for the world.Other animals are only capable of the mental functions that require less brain capabilities.

There is a David and Ann Premack Nonhuman apes, which suggests that it is possible to teach the famous study of human language. They work with chimpanzees and the famous bonobo Kanzi indicates that certain animals can also learn a human language, and can spontaneously generate and recognize words. Some language learning is also seen birds like parrots but although parrots trial and error practice studies, and their manipulation of language in chimpanzees bonobos only to show intelligent behavior can be a primary form. We are in many cases and examples throughout the entire animal kingdom, while animals, or to sulk or get depressed when they are young, one human being just like us lose. Mating behavior of animals is very organized and highly developed complex behavior and learning strategies based on their looks, but the existence of social life.

Behavior and Learning: Learning in animals has been mainly as animal behaviorists that education can be explained with the principles of conditioning or association explained.But it is really about the status of a reflexive behavior and completely devoid of understanding of dog is it? Some comparative psychologists think we like, but dogs are not something I expected, and evolutionary psychologists, such as one's brain will be considered as based on the difference.

Social behavior: some insects such as bees are very complex social behavior is more complex than some of the higher animals. From an evolutionary viewpoint, but higher than the mental abilities of animals, bees, the bees will be the rating of how social behavior, such as the complexity?

Mating behavior: the animal kingdom during the mating behavior of animals is very complex. The changing colors emitting pheromones to the body, animals resort to desperate means to attract a potential partner, you can. Only a few animals and only animals, smell and sight of their partner to use sensory cues to identify and attract a partner, also known as death.Animals, although the actual physical changes in sex with a biological process that apparently can be controlled, and this suggests that the mind can not attend. But when the animals are lost to suffer from the problem, it is a clear signal that we are not only based on animal breeding behavior, our understanding of biological programming is necessary to rethink.

Almost all types of animal behavior shows that humans are capable of, and complex social mating, it seems, and they are learning and behavior problems of the emotions (after losing a close one) shows, (affection or food getting to) enjoy, altruism (for fear of warning), and other animals to help as many complex patterns of action to show the need to maintain their species survival. One thing they do not seem to share with us our unique human language, and therefore they are not able to tell what exactly or how they feel. It may be suggested that the specific behavior of certain animals, the brain and some other good that is good for certain areas may be developed. In most cases, animals and natural disasters, earthquakes as well, and we identify the first hours or days.

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