Screenshot of video illustrating squirrel inhibition failure.
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12 comments:
Jonas
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This was an interesting article! I loved how it described all these different tests! I especially loved the food tube used as bait experiment! All these animals that they compared, I didn't realize that Self-Control of an animal was so important. Overall I would rate this a 7 out of 10. It could have been much more clear and informative, but it was definitively interesting and got the point across.
I agree with Jonas I loved this article too! I didn't know that the self control was so key. My favorite part of the article was when they did the food tube experiment. This article was very clear and informative, I would say it is a 9 out of 10 article. I really loved reading this article!!!
I agree with Jonas I loved this article too! I didn't know that the self control was so key. My favorite part of the article was when they did the food tube experiment. This article was very clear and informative, I would say it is a 9 out of 10 article. I really loved reading this article!!!
I agree with Jonas I loved this article too! I didn't know that the self control was so key. My favorite part of the article was when they did the food tube experiment. This article was very clear and informative, I would say it is a 9 out of 10 article. I really loved reading this article!!!
I loved and really enjoyed reading about this article because I felt like it was very factual and had many intricate details. I found so many things that I had questions about throughout the article. I had always wondered about animals, and what it would like to be if I was an animal. This article thought me a lot about self control and brain size. I always thought that it was about the brain size capacity of an animal, not the actual brian. I thought that this article taught me l lot, and I may enjoy reading about this topic later. I had always thought that if an animal has the brain capacity to learn, then it can learn life skills. Or in this case, self control. I would rate this article about an 10/10 because I felt that it had a lot of detail, and I really like this article, and enjoyed reading about it.
This is so cool. I really was surprised when the article stated the fact that animals with the most varied diets showed the most self-restraint. I never knew that this was true. Maybe if we, as humans do this we will show more self-restraint. Also, the types of experiments these scientist have done are really amazing. The second test with the cups was cool because it kind of relates to us, humans, when we don't stop and think, instead of just doing what was right before. I would rate this article a 8 out of 10 because of the interesting information and cool topic.
This was a cool article. Although I agree with the statement that intelligence in animals is based on brain size, the fact that maturity is too is simply an assumption. It seems to me the tests could just be measuring the ability to think well or memory for location of food. The conclusion that performing better on the tests means an animal had better self-control or is more mature is open to interpretation. The results do seem very clear that animals with bigger brains do better on these tests and that is pretty amazing. However, a better experiment to measure maturity might be to train an animal to wait for food i.e. if it tries to get it too soon it will be taken away. That might really show a difference in impulse control, which could be linked to maturity.
I think that this article is interesting. It states that brain size is actually important to self-control. I was told that even creatures with smaller brains can be smarter in certain ways, but apparently, this is not true. No matter how big or small your body is, all that matters is just the size of the brain by itself. The article also mentions how in one experiment, many creatures were tested to see if they would make it to a clear cylinder containing food - showing a lack of self-restraint - after they had been trained to get to the food through a side door in the cylinder. Large-brained animals always quickly navigated their way to the bait but smaller-brained animals did so with mixed results. In conclusion, this article taught me something new, and I always enjoy that.
I thought that this article was very interesting. It was interesting that the animals that were trained to go to a particular cup usually went there, instead of actually trying to find the food. Personally, I thought that that was kind of scary because it is not what the animals are actually supposed to do in Nature. Most of the squirrel's in the study did not do too well in this category, probably because they were trained to think that the food was in a particular location, then the location was changed. From the results of the study, I think that the animals that actually thought about were the food was, instead of listening to their training are more successful in the wild because of the simple ability to think before they did something. I wonder why the animals with the most varied diets showed the most self restraint? Maybe it is because they don't really mind what the food is, so they are not in a hurry to get it because usually in the wild there is something else that they can find.
I found this a really interesting and detailed article. My favorite part was with the cup and the food tube experiment. It was really cool tgo see that in the cup experiment, the squirrels would go for what they remembered, but the primates would think about what cup the "bait" was actually in. I found it amazing that brain size has to do with self control and that since we, as primates have larger brains, we have more self-control. But I do think that since the smaller animals had mixed results it was harder to see who had more self-control among them.
This article was very interesting. It was really cool to read that what animals learned from this experiment. I didn't know self control relied on brain size instead of the capacity of the brain. I noticed the primates and other animals had better scores than other animals such as rodents. I was surprised to see in the article is said the animals who had more self-control were the animals with a varied food diet. I would give this article a 9/10 because it gave me great detail and showed me about how the brain works.
12 comments:
This was an interesting article! I loved how it described all these different tests! I especially loved the food tube used as bait experiment! All these animals that they compared, I didn't realize that Self-Control of an animal was so important. Overall I would rate this a 7 out of 10. It could have been much more clear and informative, but it was definitively interesting and got the point across.
I agree with Jonas I loved this article too! I didn't know that the self control was so key. My favorite part of the article was when they did the food tube experiment. This article was very clear and informative, I would say it is a 9 out of 10 article. I really loved reading this article!!!
I agree with Jonas I loved this article too! I didn't know that the self control was so key. My favorite part of the article was when they did the food tube experiment. This article was very clear and informative, I would say it is a 9 out of 10 article. I really loved reading this article!!!
I agree with Jonas I loved this article too! I didn't know that the self control was so key. My favorite part of the article was when they did the food tube experiment. This article was very clear and informative, I would say it is a 9 out of 10 article. I really loved reading this article!!!
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I loved and really enjoyed reading about this article because I felt like it was very factual and had many intricate details. I found so many things that I had questions about throughout the article. I had always wondered about animals, and what it would like to be if I was an animal. This article thought me a lot about self control and brain size. I always thought that it was about the brain size capacity of an animal, not the actual brian. I thought that this article taught me l lot, and I may enjoy reading about this topic later. I had always thought that if an animal has the brain capacity to learn, then it can learn life skills. Or in this case, self control. I would rate this article about an 10/10 because I felt that it had a lot of detail, and I really like this article, and enjoyed reading about it.
This is so cool. I really was surprised when the article stated the fact that animals with the most varied diets showed the most self-restraint. I never knew that this was true. Maybe if we, as humans do this we will show more self-restraint. Also, the types of experiments these scientist have done are really amazing. The second test with the cups was cool because it kind of relates to us, humans, when we don't stop and think, instead of just doing what was right before. I would rate this article a 8 out of 10 because of the interesting information and cool topic.
This was a cool article. Although I agree with the statement that intelligence in animals is based on brain size, the fact that maturity is too is simply an assumption. It seems to me the tests could just be measuring the ability to think well or memory for location of food. The conclusion that performing better on the tests means an animal had better self-control or is more mature is open to interpretation. The results do seem very clear that animals with bigger brains do better on these tests and that is pretty amazing. However, a better experiment to measure maturity might be to train an animal to wait for food i.e. if it tries to get it too soon it will be taken away. That might really show a difference in impulse control, which could be linked to maturity.
I think that this article is interesting. It states that brain size is actually important to self-control. I was told that even creatures with smaller brains can be smarter in certain ways, but apparently, this is not true. No matter how big or small your body is, all that matters is just the size of the brain by itself. The article also mentions how in one experiment, many creatures were tested to see if they would make it to a clear cylinder containing food - showing a lack of self-restraint - after they had been trained to get to the food through a side door in the cylinder. Large-brained animals always quickly navigated their way to the bait but smaller-brained animals did so with mixed results. In conclusion, this article taught me something new, and I always enjoy that.
I thought that this article was very interesting. It was interesting that the animals that were trained to go to a particular cup usually went there, instead of actually trying to find the food. Personally, I thought that that was kind of scary because it is not what the animals are actually supposed to do in Nature. Most of the squirrel's in the study did not do too well in this category, probably because they were trained to think that the food was in a particular location, then the location was changed. From the results of the study, I think that the animals that actually thought about were the food was, instead of listening to their training are more successful in the wild because of the simple ability to think before they did something. I wonder why the animals with the most varied diets showed the most self restraint? Maybe it is because they don't really mind what the food is, so they are not in a hurry to get it because usually in the wild there is something else that they can find.
I found this a really interesting and detailed article. My favorite part was with the cup and the food tube experiment. It was really cool tgo see that in the cup experiment, the squirrels would go for what they remembered, but the primates would think about what cup the "bait" was actually in. I found it amazing that brain size has to do with self control and that since we, as primates have larger brains, we have more self-control. But I do think that since the smaller animals had mixed results it was harder to see who had more self-control among them.
This article was very interesting. It was really cool to read that what animals learned from this experiment. I didn't know self control relied on brain size instead of the capacity of the brain. I noticed the primates and other animals had better scores than other animals such as rodents. I was surprised to see in the article is said the animals who had more self-control were the animals with a varied food diet. I would give this article a 9/10 because it gave me great detail and showed me about how the brain works.
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