Alex the Parrot
Jan. 21st, 2009 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslWas Alex the Parrot a modern-day Clever Hans? Did Pepperberg try to exclude the possibility that Alex was just reading her?
These videos, if legit, are pretty very impressive (and cute).
How much can you do with just operant conditioning? What intelligence tests would you demand, to test their flexible uses of representations? Theory of mind?
These videos, if legit, are pretty very impressive (and cute).
How much can you do with just operant conditioning? What intelligence tests would you demand, to test their flexible uses of representations? Theory of mind?