Chapter 9

The first thing i found really interesting about this chapter is how they would use chipanzees to see if animals could think. I found the resaults to be amazing. A chip named Ai would be able to remember numbers that were flashed in front of him for a few seconds, and it says unlike humans he could put them in tap them on to a computer screen in numerical order. Also there was a parrot named alex that could comprehened numbers up to 6. From reading this i am not to sure if we are the smartest mamals, maybe the best taught but, these are some amazing animals.

Another thing i found interesting about this chapter is how when we grow from zero months to twenty-four plus months we learn speech. Looking at the table in the book it is pretty interesting how fast we really seem to pick up on speech. At about 4 months we make sounds, and from that point on we just keep moving up. Making sounds that are said often in our house holds, saying just one word that makes are parents flip, to moving up to a few short senteces and finally to rapid complete sentences. I think it is pretty cool by the time we are of the age of 2 we are just about capable to make sentcnes, starting from just making sounds its pretty impressive.

Lastly i never really knew what to call this but in this chapter i found out that when i have a problem and i always try to solve it the same way, it is called fixation. This happens to me alot when i play a game called bloxorz, you have to try and move a blox into a certan trap door, it is all about how you aprouch cornors and how you move on the tiles, i will add the link to the game and try it out it is difficult and if you fail try not to fixate on how you did it before you failed.


http://www.learn4good.com/games/maze/bloxorz_flash_puzzle.html