Reference no: EM133195838

Read: A Report to an Academy, 1980

H. S. TERRACE Department of Psychology

Columbia University New York, New York 10027 Assignment: Can non-human animals learn language?

Consider (Concept Map of Introduction)

Read the Introduction section of the paper and construct a concept map by defining key terms and creating appropriate links between them

• Fill your concept map with keywords that help you to understand the concepts in the introduction:
• Make a note of the concepts that you need to review or study
• Define new issue(s) to be addressed. What was new about the research?
• Locate relevant variables and determine their relationships
• Design your concept map by going to the insert tab, clicking on shapes, selecting boxes or bubbles, and lines to connect them. Type the concepts that you would like to relate into each box or bubble

Read (Methods and Results)

• Read the methods and results sections
• Describe how the data were obtained (type here)
• Define unfamiliar words here (type here)
• Create a simple visual depiction (flowchart, diagram, etc.) of the methods for the study (type here)

Elucidate Hypotheses

• Describe the major hypothesis (type here)
• Describe what is being examined in Figure 1 (type here)
• Create your own title to describe the figure (type here)
• Describe what is being examined in Table 4 (type here)
• Create your own title to describe the table (type here)

Analyze and Interpret Data

• Determine what the data mean. Relate the results to the hypothesis and purpose of the research (type here)
• Make at least 4 bullet points to summarize the conclusions (type here)
• Read the discussion and conclusions sections and identify any differences between your conclusions and those presented in the paper (type here)
• Can Nim Chimpsky and other animals learn language? Why or why not?
• Construct a logical argument to support your opinion using information from the Herbert Terrace paper and the Savage-Rumbaugh video.

Think of the Next Experiment

• Imagine that you are an author of the article just analyzed. What experiment should be done next?
• Design a distinct study to follow up:
• Describe the purpose (type here)
• Describe the hypotheses (type here)
• Describe the methods (you can make a flowchart here if you wish)