Animal Learning, Language & Cognition

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Do they truly communicate? Some psychologists who believe apes are quite capable of acquiring language have gone to creative lengths to gather support for their position.  Other psychologists dispute the idea that apes are capable of learning language.  Visit the some of the websites of the pioneers in this field on the "Related Links" page: Rumbaugh, Patterson, Fouts, Shumaker, Tetsuro, Pepperberg, and others.  What do you believe?  Is there evidence that animals are capable of having a language?  Explain your answer.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Are Animals Bilingual or Trilingual?</U></B></div> <div> Research now reveals the discovery that most of the apes being taught language are bilingual or trilingual.  Can you identify this in the apes studies?  How do they exhibit bilingual or trilingual abilities?  Which species of animals do you think possess these abilities?  What populations of people display the same abilities?</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Teaching Animals Language and Its Implications</U></B></div> <div> Sue Savage-Rumbaugh says that the overarching goal of the research undertaken by her Center was to develop technologies and teaching strategies designed to facilitate the learning of language by persons with mental retardation.  In looking at her work with Kanzi, do you think that such work can find clues as to how to communicate with mentally retarded persons?  What specific ways can you outline as evidenced from seeing the work and research of those working with teaching animals language and cognition?</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Do Animals Express Emotions?</U></B></div> <div> What are some indicators from the videos and from research that proves that animals express emotion?  What specific emotions do animals express?  Can you cite specific examples of these displays of emotion by particular animals from the research?</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Can Animals Think?</U></B></div> <div> Is there evidence that animals can think?  What are they thinking?  What do they understand?</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Are Animals Intelligent?</U></B></div> <div> What evidence can you provide that animals have intelligence and cognitive abilities? Are such animals as dolphins, rats, dogs, cats, horses, primates, and birds intelligent?  Compare and contrast.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>The Human-Animal Bond</U></B></div> <div> How are animals and humans useful to each other?  Is there an interdependence between humans and animals?  What is it and how  and why is it so?</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>