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Psych journal-Henry Chan
Sep 10 2007, 6:09 AM EDT Source of Article: Scientific America.com Title: Human Toddlers Trump Apes on Social Skills Date: September 7th,2007 (1) What new information did you learn? I learn that an infant child has better social skills than apes. The article suggested that we used to believe that our intelligence skill is better than apes due to the size of human brain to be three times bigger. But now they changed the theory into where we are more intelligent than Ape in intelligence involving social skills. They then performed a few tests and the result is that an infant is in fact more intelligent than ape in adapting skills as well. (2) What is your opinion of the research processes? Is it ethical or exploitive? What are the weaknesses and biases to the research? I think it may be exploitive however I think it should be ethical enough. I think that these kinds of research will help a lot of studies in evolution of human. The weaknesses of this research should be because the size of the human brain is different from an ape; we should expect great results anyway. Also, the age of apes ranged too far to really see the difference between an infant with an ape. (3) What further research could be conducted in this area? We could research on how animals behave in a social contact situation. For example, an infant with its mother and an ape with its mother; We can then spot out the real difference between human infant and an ape in a family. Also we might test reactions of an outsider coming into their environment. This will also tell us the difference. (4) How does this information relate to you? This information relates to me simply because I am a human and I would certainly like to know the difference between our evolutionary ancestor and us. This will then help us how our mind works comparing to an ape’s mind. Do you find this valuable? |
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