Psychology of animals

Contrary to most people's ideas, animals show interesting psychological characteristics. Given the fact that available data and animal psychology are still in the developing stages, many researchers tried it but had some success, but the animal's "heart" blueprint It will be too early to provide. The animal's heart by learning the behavior and learning of animals. Of course, behaviorists think that there is no need to talk about the "heart" of animals at all. Learning and reaction of animals can be explained completely by changes in behavior and the relevance of various stimuli. Many psychologists believe that animals only show instinctive responses, and that behavior is not intentional.

This means that the animal does not behave in a specific way using a conscious mind but simply acts according to the stimulus response pattern and instinctively shows a trial and error behavior pattern. This is considered a pioneering behavioralist Konrad Lorenz as a "fixed behavior pattern" or FAP, and several FAPs are thought to be caused by certain standard stimuli throughout the animal kingdom . If the heart is the brain just as the soul is the body, the concept of the mind itself will be a problem, but we can not deny the human mind, but without reference to the heart directly the behavior of the animal You can explain. How good is this position?

In recent years, the mind of animals has become a major concern. Can animals think or feel? Are animals intellectual? Can they apply insight to solve a problem? Anyone keeping pets at home will positively answer these questions. Of course, animals seem to understand our mood. They probably know what is going on after reading the expression of our face and body. If a cage bird can get out of the cage by pushing the lever, will it be considered insightful or trial and error behavior? Because animals can not speak in our human language and we do not understand the language of animals, there is a gap in communication, this is because animals have "emotional experience" and insight to solve It may be the main reason why you can not use the problem or all of them to be a trail and error.

Our human problem is that we judge other animals in our only tool language. We speak emotion, insight, emotion in a special way. It is impossible to measure the animal's heart if you do not understand the words of animals. I can understand animals' gestures, but I can not examine the hearts of other species deeply. However, knowledge and understanding about animals is limited, it is ambiguous and not wise to think only about using trial and error methods to support animals to the world. In terms of Darwin's words, the most advanced human brain can have a more complex emotional pattern, insight, expectations, etc. than the underlying animal, it is natural that the evolved brain means higher ability, It is widely accepted in academic and psychology. For complex mental functions. Other animals are only capable of mental functions requiring less brain capacity.

A famous study by David and Ann Premack suggests that it is possible to teach human languages ​​to nonhuman apes as well. They cooperated with chimpanzee and famous Bonobo's Kanzi, suggesting that certain animals can learn the human language and spontaneously generate and recognize words. Some linguistic learning has been seen even in birds like parrots, but parrots show rotation learning by trial and error, but chimpanzees and bonobos merely show basic intellectual behavior in language manipulation It may only be shown. In the animal kingdom, like ours, we encountered many cases and examples, such that when an animal loses a friend or a young child, it becomes clumsy or depressed. Animals also seem to be based on highly organized complex mating behavior, highly developed learning behavior, even their social life is a survival strategy.

Learning Behavior: Learning in animals has mainly been explained by behaviorists who think that animal learning can be explained by conditioning or associative principles. As you can see, dogs learn to salivate when you see their own owner coming out of the kitchen with a specific dish. Because the dog is tying the owner's satisfaction of the hunger and the owner and the dish. But is it mere reflexive behavior and does the dog completely lack the real insight about the situation? Some of the comparative psychologists think that dogs also have feelings such as happiness and expectations for something like us, and evolutionary psychologists rely on the brain for their differences I think.

Social Behavior: Certain insects like bees show a very complex social behavior and are more complicated than some of higher animals. But from an evolutionary point of view, higher animals will have higher spiritual abilities than bees. So how does a bee show such complexity in behavioral social reactions? Bees tend to have special neurons due to complex tasks, but in the case of bees, ants, and other insects who prefer colonies and groups, the need to survive complicates social behavior and survives or avoids attacks There is a tendency to have its own rules for. Other animals.

Mating Behavior: In the animal kingdom, the mating behavior of animals is very complex. From pheromone secretion to body color change, animals can rely on desperate means to attract potential associates. Certain animals are known to die to mate and use their sensory cues through smell and sight to identify and attract mating opponents, like humans. We humans also depend on our sensory organs to decide our opponents, but eventually we also use insights and understanding to stabilize our mating process. In animals, however, the entire mating process appears to be biologically controlled by actual body changes, which may indicate whether it indicates the presence of a mind. However, when an animal suffers after losing a spouse, it clearly shows that we need to rethink the understanding of animal mating behavior based on purely biological programming.

Animals show almost all kinds of human behavior and show complex social behavior, mating behavior, and learning behavior, feeling of affliction (after losing the close), joy (for affection or eating ), Altruism (altruism). It is necessary to help other animals with a danger warning) and to show many such complicated behavioral patterns to maintain their species survival. One of the things they seem not to share with us is our unique human language, so they can not say exactly what they feel and how they feel. It may be suggested that certain animals possess certain developed areas of the brain that are good at specific behaviors and other activities are not good at. In most cases, animals identify earthquakes and natural disasters much more and identify them from hours to days ago.

A reptile like a snake has a very developed sense of vibration. For example, radioactivity is highly developed even in bats and certain birds and insects, dogs have better smells and sounds than humans, and chimpanzees have better adaptive behavior than humans. According to research by Jianzhi Zhang) Humans have a highly developed linguistic domain in the brain with better cognitive skills. Human brains are not evolved equally in all areas, although human beings are considered to have evolved most in the animal kingdom, as our brain can perform some complex tasks. The specific task that we humans could have been possible so far. So, this is not a question of who is better and who is good at what. Considering this, is it correct to think that humans are the best or most evolved among all other animals? This is an evolutionist biologist, comparative psychologist,