Examples of primate in the following topics:
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- What about nonhuman primates, who share many similarities with humans?
- Nonhuman primates communicate in ways that are very similar to those used by humans; however, there are important differences as well.
- Second, and more importantly, nonhuman primates (and other animals who communicate with one another) have what is known as a closed vocal system: this means different sounds cannot be combined together to produce new symbols with different meanings.
- One of the most famous case studies in the debate over how complex nonhuman-primate language can be is Koko the gorilla.
- Koko is famous for having learned over a thousand signs of "Gorilla Sign Language," a simple sign language developed to try to teach nonhuman primates complex language.
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- Research in this area addresses many different issues, uses many different methods, and explores the behavior of many different species, from insects to primates.
- There has always been interest in studying various primate species; important contributions to social and developmental psychology were made by Harry F.
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- This subfield researches many different species, from insects to primates.
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is also likely that there was an intermediate period during which our
communication systems were comparable to those of other primates, and even if we did
have knowledge of what this was like, it would be hard to say exactly when we crossed over from animal communication to
human language.
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- Comparative psychologists study everything from primates to insects hoping to make sense of a variety of behaviors, such as mating practices.
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- Some of the animals covered under the AWA include any live or dead cat, dog, hamster, rabbit, nonhuman primate, or guinea pig.
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- However, sex hormones do not directly regulate the ability to copulate in primates (including humans); rather, they are only one influence on the motivation to engage in sexual behaviors.
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- Specifically, this research suggests that alcohol exposure that is limited to day 19 or 20 of gestation can lead to significant facial abnormalities in the offspring of primates (Ashley, Magnuson, Omnell, & Clarren, 1999).
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- However, sex hormones do not directly regulate the ability to copulate in primates (including humans); rather, they are only one influence on the motivation to engage in sexual behaviors.
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- Activation of the locus coeruleus is associated with anxiety and fear, and research with nonhuman primates has shown that stimulating the locus coeruleus either electrically or through drugs produces panic-like symptoms (Charney et al., 1990).