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Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind (Developing Child)

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p. 20 "...one of the crucial tenets of the book. The behavioral flexibility associated with prolonged development is the result of flexibility in forming representations of the world. My argument is that a crucial characteristic of primates is their ability to construct representation of the physical and social world and mediate their behavior by means of those representations."

p. 23 "The debate about continuity of human and nonhuman primates cognition critically hinges on the notion of representation."

Studying perception - show surprise = "look for longer". This can be used to compare age development and species development. Example: adult rhesus monkey with 12 month old child on a certain task.

p. 45 "...human adults typically tend to perceive first the global outline of a stimulus and only secondarily its local details." This is different for different primates and p. 47 "These results are potentially very important. They point to the possibility of different "cognitive styles" present in different primate species otherwise endowed with similar perceptual abilities."

P. 54 Monkeys prefer watching other monkeys to other things. (I find this interesting in relating it to dogs that prefer to bark at other dogs in the neighborhood then people or cars, but also bark at cats. Even puppies prefer to watch other dogs to watching other things.) Monkeys also learn from watching others solve problems. (p. 55) (Some skills cats and dogs can reach in two weeks compared to human infants around 8 or 9 months! (p. 68) (I wonder if it is because the dogs can still smell the object that is hidden.) I no sooner thought this then the next paragraph refers to tests that avoided olfactory cues. (notes up to page 74.)