Comparative Psych L 20

Pavlov’s Dogs Washoe the Chimp

Koko the Gorilla Peter the Dolphin Alex the Parrot

Betty the Crow Chaser the Border Collie Echo the Elephant Harlow’s Monkeys

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STUDENT WORKSHEET: L 19 - TOPIC date set: / /’20 ; date completed: / / ’20 completed: SATISFACTORY/ NOT 4 What
do each of the TOP 10 animal examples show us? Listen or view to complete this table:
ANIMAL RESEARCHER Date BEHAVIOUR FOCUS HOW? method + WHAT?.. What ‘s with that? ..ISSUE ?
FINDINGs
Hans the Horse Early 1900s The extent to which Hans would perform acts like Revealed how animals are
animals is capable of being capable of performing highly receptive to human
human-like simple arithmetic after being cues.
intelligence trained by a maths teacher for four
years. Hans could also tell the time
and match artists to their paintings
or melodies by tapping his hoof to
correspond to letters.
Pavlov’s Dogs

Washoe the Chimp September 1965 – How much human Washoe learnt over 150 different Revealed the nature of
October 30, 2007 language an animal signs for the American sign some animals, how they are
can learn language and even teached some to able to learn the human
her adopted son. This shows that language.
some animals are capable of
learning human language or the
most basic signs.
Koko the Gorilla ~2000s If other animals can Koko was taught sign language for Highlights how an
communicate through decades by the phycologist experiment can be untrue
sign language and if Francine Patterson. Koko also if there is a bias. How
gorillas are able to allegedly mourned the passing of a ethical the acts of teaching
have emotional comedian that she had met before. the gorilla were.
connections to other
animals
Peter the Dolphin

Alex the Parrot

Betty the Crow 2002 That a crow can Betty had the ingenuity to bend a Found that other birds of
purposely modify an wire to create a hook shape to the same species would do
object to solve new reach food in a plastic tube. the same, so it proves that

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problems Betty is not unique, and

that behaviour is part of
their natural repertoire.
Chaser’ the Border Collie

Echo the Elephant 1945 - 2009 How elephants behave Displayed different types of bonds Helped scientists have a
including their and it was discovered that they deeper understanding of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5y8- emotional lives, their only display emotional responses in elephants.
gSkoek&ab_channel=MikeBirkhead transmission of specific situations.
cultural practices and
their capacity for
teamwork.
Harlow’s Monkeys 1957 and How would an animal The monkeys were given two This shows the nature of
react to being raised inanimate objects as mothers. One monkeys. Showing how
1963 away from it’s birth was made of cloth and wool while they liked the cloth mother
mother and in a the other was made of wood and more than they liked the
controlled wire. Evem if the wire one had hard wire and wood
environment food the monkeys like the cloth one mother.
better