My favorite part of this is that it's theorized that meowing itself was learned specifically to communicate with humans, as cats rarely meow to communicate with other cats. Which means their first "clever" escape attempt was actually meowing to be let out which was also a learned behavior :3c
According to comparative research between the minds of human beings and animals, ''the law of effect'' of conscious feelings a more ancient basis of our shared inherited cognition between them and ourselves through evolution than is the reflective cognition and language useful to rationalize it. The cat in this experiment's video is stimulated by the sense of feeling of hating unfreedom and wanting to be free, an emotional state of distress leading to a desire to be consummated with an action. Subjective feelings, as they do in humans, really do exist in cats, and have causal effects on the consequences of their actions. The desire to be free in the cat can be recognized by us as what Denton D. McKinley and other neuro-psychoanalysts class as a ''primordial emotion.'' “there are two constituents of a primordial emotion-the specific sensation which when severe may be imperious, and the compelling intention for gratification by a consummatory act. They may dominate the stream of consciousness.”
@blurgal35 yes that's true, but reinforcement is a much better tool to facilitate learning because it teaches the animal exactly what behavior they should perform. Punishment, on the other hand, only tells the organism what NOT to do. That doesn't really help the cat figure out how to get to the food because they have to keep guessing at which behaviors actually will work.
@blurgal35 Even though Thorndike wrote that cats can't stand being confined and will try to escape the box for the very need to be free (unlike dogs which need rewards) it would be logical to assume that by arranging punishments it would be possible to teach the cat into staying in the box. But I wouldn't think that would go well with the cat's health.
My favorite part of this is that it's theorized that meowing itself was learned specifically to communicate with humans, as cats rarely meow to communicate with other cats. Which means their first "clever" escape attempt was actually meowing to be let out which was also a learned behavior :3c
According to comparative research between the minds of human beings and animals, ''the law of effect'' of conscious feelings a more ancient basis of our shared inherited cognition between them and ourselves through evolution than is the reflective cognition and language useful to rationalize it.
The cat in this experiment's video is stimulated by the sense of feeling of hating unfreedom and wanting to be free, an emotional state of distress leading to a desire to be consummated with an action.
Subjective feelings, as they do in humans, really do exist in cats, and have causal effects on the consequences of their actions.
The desire to be free in the cat can be recognized by us as what Denton D. McKinley and other neuro-psychoanalysts class as a ''primordial emotion.''
“there are two constituents
of a primordial emotion-the specific sensation which when severe
may be imperious, and the compelling intention for gratification by
a consummatory act. They may dominate the stream of consciousness.”
@blurgal35 yes that's true, but reinforcement is a much better tool to facilitate learning because it teaches the animal exactly what behavior they should perform. Punishment, on the other hand, only tells the organism what NOT to do. That doesn't really help the cat figure out how to get to the food because they have to keep guessing at which behaviors actually will work.
@blurgal35 Even though Thorndike wrote that cats can't stand being confined and will try to escape the box for the very need to be free (unlike dogs which need rewards) it would be logical to assume that by arranging punishments it would be possible to teach the cat into staying in the box. But I wouldn't think that would go well with the cat's health.
Edward Thorndick
The cat didn’t seem very pleased
thanks for this, using it in class tomorrow :D
@blurgal35
yeah, sounds logical ;)
thanks
Where is the original documentary from? Source please :)
the punishment is food, to increase it
ryan Rader it wouldn’t be a punishment is more like a reinforcement