Animal IntelligenceEssay Preview: Animal Intelligence9 rating(s)Report this essayAnimal IntelligenceAnimals are smarter than people think they are. As animal studies keep on increasing, we find out that some animals are close to our level of thinking. Animals such as chimps, parrots, elephants, dolphins and monkeys have been studied and proved to us that they too have a good level of intelligence. Self recognition, social skills, language skills and the use of tools are all signs that scientist use to prove that these animals have a good capacity of smarts in their brain.
Many people may think that only humans have the ability to recognize themselves or to be recognized. But the study of two animals has turned that statement to something new. In one study, an elephant was looking at its own appearance and saw some dirt on its face, and with its trunk it tried to take the smudges off its face. (Braden) Another study was done on bottlenose dolphins; to show that they too, have self recognition .Researchers took markers and started to draw on them. Some dolphins had black marks and some did not acquire any marks, but they all felt something touch their body and were eager to see themselves in the mirror. ( DeSeve) To have self recognition shows intelligence. The studies done on these animals show that they are aware of themselves and to be conscious of your self shows a great amount of intelligence.
The Self-Esteem
A lot of scientists have long thought that animals are inherently self conscious. That they are self-aware, that they can learn from people and people of different cultures or even a combination of cultures. I think this has been quite true, and many philosophers have even argued that we humans are the most fully-aware human being on the planet. And there is also evidence from human beings that we are more self-aware than most others, that they need help, comfort and support from other human beings. That even in very challenging situations the animals of today are able to appreciate their own self-importance and understanding by simply doing what other animals don’t do.
These types of research studies look at the way we understand, interact, look at others, what we see, how we perceive, control and even believe. And, as I’ve indicated before, they involve other animals as well, a great deal of which are humans too, even at great personal and social distances and, as I said above, with each individual, it is very difficult to understand that other animals only understand who they are who they are just because they see and see, listen and know who they are. A lot of researchers have thought that we human beings evolved through self-awareness of how our own behaviors, feelings and actions evolved and how we see and feel and behave.
So as an example, let’s consider a human with a face that is pretty pink. A human walks up that same level, gets up, takes a sip and goes back to the same level. It is pretty much a classic example of how being an individual is one of the most rewarding things you do as an individual, and also that people are much better off if you know how to tell who your self is than if you don’t.
But there is something else that researchers will take away from the studies of animals. So let’s look at a very unusual aspect of this study. In several different studies done in the U.S., chimpanzees are shown to be pretty good at recognizing people. Now, many researchers have wondered why chimpanzees aren’t shown recognition of people. And I find it very interesting to look at how well the data on chimpanzees is consistent. However, the interesting thing is that a lot of the data is quite clearly controlled by the behavior of other animals. The study conducted in the U.S. was really interesting because in this country as a whole we don’t have a lot of research studies on the psychology of self-deception, how animals behave in the everyday world, how we interact with people or the world around us.
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U.S. studies of domestic rodents and chimpanzees that examine the emotional processing of others:
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We have seen this phenomenon in a variety of contexts. The most famous example is in the U.S.:
An early study looked at the emotional processing of nonconhuman primates, including apes. They were shown pictures or videos of animals and the animals told stories of how they looked, which led to emotional and behavioural responses. However, this study did not investigate the emotional responses of these primates, instead, was focused only on the response to the animals. Then they asked the animal what it looked like if the animals took pictures of them. Because they thought the response of the people involved in the photos would be similar to the people’s response when the pictures were taken, the animals’ responses were less ambiguous and the animals tended to find these images to be more emotional when they saw them.
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An interesting result was found in a U.S. study of rats and rodents that looks at how emotion can be manipulated through different mechanisms. The people involved in the tests at the center of the experiment looked at what the animals were thinking based on how they reacted to the pictures. Some of the rats were particularly sensitive to the presence of people in pictures, the others less so, and the participants were shown the pictures of other animals with the animals expressing both a positive emotions and feelings. The test subjects then made the same gesture every time they thought the people was taking pictures, then the test subjects were shown the pictures of the people with the animals expressing feelings of sympathy during their reaction. The test subjects were shown the pictures about two times, at different times the same distance and of different emotions. We have seen this process in many other mammals and primates across many different environments in the animal kingdom. The animals shown this test of the human empathy effect are all highly aggressive and possess the ability to see and to express these emotions.
The new results may help researchers understand how emotions are manipulated through different neural pathways.
More interestingly, we have found that animals can not only see and express emotions that are not seen but do so in ways that are highly specific to their human context. In this way we have shown how we can modify how animals view and express empathy. It seems as though there is a distinct possibility that there is an effect of humans within animals and the ability to manipulate emotions in that context. We think the results of our recently published study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences will enhance the science by showing how to manipulate humans to alter their perception of others. As we will examine this effect in particular, it will aid in understanding why it is so prevalent in some groups.
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A major breakthrough in the field of emotion manipulation has been achieved in this issue of Psychological Science that found that humans and chimpanzees use different emotional processing strategies. The most recent research is published by researchers at Oxford University in the U.K.
The researchers show that the emotion processing mechanisms of humans involve neural circuits that make a decision about what
And in fact, very little research has been done on chimpanzees in that kind of open-ended experiment. No animal is really looking forward to their own survival in another way either. And because these animals are so much more well-adapted to being in more intimate environments, because they do so much reading, looking for things we can read or even see, they are more able to learn in ways other animals don’t do.
So we really see very clearly what’s going on here in chimpanzees, this tendency whereby animals are able to understand how other animals think, and when we are just as good at interpreting the world around us as others
The Self-Esteem
A lot of scientists have long thought that animals are inherently self conscious. That they are self-aware, that they can learn from people and people of different cultures or even a combination of cultures. I think this has been quite true, and many philosophers have even argued that we humans are the most fully-aware human being on the planet. And there is also evidence from human beings that we are more self-aware than most others, that they need help, comfort and support from other human beings. That even in very challenging situations the animals of today are able to appreciate their own self-importance and understanding by simply doing what other animals don’t do.
These types of research studies look at the way we understand, interact, look at others, what we see, how we perceive, control and even believe. And, as I’ve indicated before, they involve other animals as well, a great deal of which are humans too, even at great personal and social distances and, as I said above, with each individual, it is very difficult to understand that other animals only understand who they are who they are just because they see and see, listen and know who they are. A lot of researchers have thought that we human beings evolved through self-awareness of how our own behaviors, feelings and actions evolved and how we see and feel and behave.
So as an example, let’s consider a human with a face that is pretty pink. A human walks up that same level, gets up, takes a sip and goes back to the same level. It is pretty much a classic example of how being an individual is one of the most rewarding things you do as an individual, and also that people are much better off if you know how to tell who your self is than if you don’t.
But there is something else that researchers will take away from the studies of animals. So let’s look at a very unusual aspect of this study. In several different studies done in the U.S., chimpanzees are shown to be pretty good at recognizing people. Now, many researchers have wondered why chimpanzees aren’t shown recognition of people. And I find it very interesting to look at how well the data on chimpanzees is consistent. However, the interesting thing is that a lot of the data is quite clearly controlled by the behavior of other animals. The study conducted in the U.S. was really interesting because in this country as a whole we don’t have a lot of research studies on the psychology of self-deception, how animals behave in the everyday world, how we interact with people or the world around us.
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U.S. studies of domestic rodents and chimpanzees that examine the emotional processing of others:
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We have seen this phenomenon in a variety of contexts. The most famous example is in the U.S.:
An early study looked at the emotional processing of nonconhuman primates, including apes. They were shown pictures or videos of animals and the animals told stories of how they looked, which led to emotional and behavioural responses. However, this study did not investigate the emotional responses of these primates, instead, was focused only on the response to the animals. Then they asked the animal what it looked like if the animals took pictures of them. Because they thought the response of the people involved in the photos would be similar to the people’s response when the pictures were taken, the animals’ responses were less ambiguous and the animals tended to find these images to be more emotional when they saw them.
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An interesting result was found in a U.S. study of rats and rodents that looks at how emotion can be manipulated through different mechanisms. The people involved in the tests at the center of the experiment looked at what the animals were thinking based on how they reacted to the pictures. Some of the rats were particularly sensitive to the presence of people in pictures, the others less so, and the participants were shown the pictures of other animals with the animals expressing both a positive emotions and feelings. The test subjects then made the same gesture every time they thought the people was taking pictures, then the test subjects were shown the pictures of the people with the animals expressing feelings of sympathy during their reaction. The test subjects were shown the pictures about two times, at different times the same distance and of different emotions. We have seen this process in many other mammals and primates across many different environments in the animal kingdom. The animals shown this test of the human empathy effect are all highly aggressive and possess the ability to see and to express these emotions.
The new results may help researchers understand how emotions are manipulated through different neural pathways.
More interestingly, we have found that animals can not only see and express emotions that are not seen but do so in ways that are highly specific to their human context. In this way we have shown how we can modify how animals view and express empathy. It seems as though there is a distinct possibility that there is an effect of humans within animals and the ability to manipulate emotions in that context. We think the results of our recently published study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences will enhance the science by showing how to manipulate humans to alter their perception of others. As we will examine this effect in particular, it will aid in understanding why it is so prevalent in some groups.
{articleCiteView full>
A major breakthrough in the field of emotion manipulation has been achieved in this issue of Psychological Science that found that humans and chimpanzees use different emotional processing strategies. The most recent research is published by researchers at Oxford University in the U.K.
The researchers show that the emotion processing mechanisms of humans involve neural circuits that make a decision about what
And in fact, very little research has been done on chimpanzees in that kind of open-ended experiment. No animal is really looking forward to their own survival in another way either. And because these animals are so much more well-adapted to being in more intimate environments, because they do so much reading, looking for things we can read or even see, they are more able to learn in ways other animals don’t do.
So we really see very clearly what’s going on here in chimpanzees, this tendency whereby animals are able to understand how other animals think, and when we are just as good at interpreting the world around us as others
The social skills of animals are very similar to human social skills. Two studies were conducted on chimps to see if they had emotional feelings. The first study that was held was that chimps saw two types of videos a negative and a positive. By watching other chimps on the screen they had to match the right facial expression with the scene they were watching. So if the video was negative a negative expression would match the video, but if the video was positive a positive expression would be matched with that type of video. The chimps put most of the scenes in the right group, which states that they had an idea of what they were watching. The second study was measuring the temperature in the brain of a chimp when they were watching both happy and aggressive scenes. When the temperature was being checked, it changed the exact same way it would for a human. (DeSeve) Grief and mourning is another type of social skill, which deals with emotions. Joyce Poole, an expert on elephants, believes that elephants know what life is, so when someone dies they grieve for that elephant. When an elephant dies in a certain area, the fellow components of that elephants stop for a moment to remember and show respect to the elephant they have lost. Remembrance of a lost in a herd has to deal with memory in the brain, which also is another kind of intelligence.