Folk Physics for Apes
Subtitle: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works (Psychology)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: November 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780198572206
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Cognitive theory; Primates; Apes & Monkeys; Cognitive Psychology; Life Sciences - Zoology - Primatology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Psychology; Behavior; Chimpanzees; Psychology, Comparative; Tool use in animals
First sentence: This book is the result of a five-year project designed to explore how chimpanzees conceive of the physics that underlies their use and construction of simple tools.
Description: "Folk physics for apes outlines a new perspective on the innermost workings of the chimpanzee's mind. It offers a glimpse into the mental life of another species, examining how apes perceive and understand the physical world - an understanding that appears to be both similar to, and yet profoundly different from our own. In teasing apart the human and ape ways of understanding the world, it represents a new goal for all of those interested in mental evolution: to begin to pursue the spectacular mental differences that exist between humans and other animals as vigorously as we have previously pursued the similarities. This book will have broad appeal to evolutionary psychologists, developmental psychologists, comparative psychologists, and all of the subdisciplines of cognitive science (philosophy, cognitive psychology, anthropology). In addition, the book offers developmental psychologists a wealth of valuable new non-verbal techniques for assessing causal understanding in young children."--BOOK JACKET.