Chapter 10 Section 10
He believes that birds have no idea how to retain or repeat song. However, that is exactly how most birds will learn to sing. By listening to the birds around them and repeat it as well as they can. Some birds even pick up new notes and add them year after year. He also says that it is a mechanism for self preservation and protection, the song is actually a sign to female birds of how "fit" the male bird is and how good its genes may be. Females will then choose a male bird with the best song to mate. Nice try Locke
Monday, March 31, 2008
Animals can't think??
Chapter 11
Locke talks about how animals do not have the ability to analyze ideas, or to put many ideas together as well as humans do. This is true, but he underestimates how smart animals can be. He says that maybe with some senses they will put some ideas together and grasp a semi large picture overall. But there are animals that have abilities to work together and form life long relationships as in the case with some apes. They stay with there mate all throughout their lives. They also become very protective and are able to bring together ideas of an enemy and protect what they need to protect. Prairie dogs have the ability to yelp when they see an enemy flying over head. However, when a young prairie dog yelps they will look up and determine for themselves if this is truly an enemy or just a young mistake. Even bees do waggle dances and release pheromones to point the rest of the colony in the direction of food. Although he is right that animals aren't as smart as humans, I believe he is horribly underestimating them. Then again the research and observations that had been done at his day in age are must less numersome than the info we have today.
Locke talks about how animals do not have the ability to analyze ideas, or to put many ideas together as well as humans do. This is true, but he underestimates how smart animals can be. He says that maybe with some senses they will put some ideas together and grasp a semi large picture overall. But there are animals that have abilities to work together and form life long relationships as in the case with some apes. They stay with there mate all throughout their lives. They also become very protective and are able to bring together ideas of an enemy and protect what they need to protect. Prairie dogs have the ability to yelp when they see an enemy flying over head. However, when a young prairie dog yelps they will look up and determine for themselves if this is truly an enemy or just a young mistake. Even bees do waggle dances and release pheromones to point the rest of the colony in the direction of food. Although he is right that animals aren't as smart as humans, I believe he is horribly underestimating them. Then again the research and observations that had been done at his day in age are must less numersome than the info we have today.
Locke: Memory, Recalling Ideas
Book II Chapter 10
Locke talks about the mind retaining (retention he calls it) and recalling ideas, objects, and experiences, such as heat, light, yellow, sweet. He says there are two ways that the mind can bring these things to the front of the mind in the current time. One is by actually keep what you are retaining in your sight. The other he says, is the minds ability to pull it from "memory" which he calls the storehouse for ideas. The aability to recall an idea or experience is dependent on a couple things. He says that repetition has a significant effect, which is now the bases for teaching at all levels, so he was right on with that one. Furthermore, he says those events or sensations that have the strongest affect on us. For instance he believes the things that hit deepest are things that have to do with pleasure or pain. Which is true to some point but there may also be events that don't cause either that will make a lasting impression on our memories, so he has the right idea but that will not always be the case.
He also says that the reason infants do not remember any of that time of there life is because none of the events are repeated. However, I think it may be the fact that a childs brain is not able to assess all the information that is actually presented and there for does not possess the ability to store and recall all this information.
Locke talks about the mind retaining (retention he calls it) and recalling ideas, objects, and experiences, such as heat, light, yellow, sweet. He says there are two ways that the mind can bring these things to the front of the mind in the current time. One is by actually keep what you are retaining in your sight. The other he says, is the minds ability to pull it from "memory" which he calls the storehouse for ideas. The aability to recall an idea or experience is dependent on a couple things. He says that repetition has a significant effect, which is now the bases for teaching at all levels, so he was right on with that one. Furthermore, he says those events or sensations that have the strongest affect on us. For instance he believes the things that hit deepest are things that have to do with pleasure or pain. Which is true to some point but there may also be events that don't cause either that will make a lasting impression on our memories, so he has the right idea but that will not always be the case.
He also says that the reason infants do not remember any of that time of there life is because none of the events are repeated. However, I think it may be the fact that a childs brain is not able to assess all the information that is actually presented and there for does not possess the ability to store and recall all this information.
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