YAMAMOTO STUDY EVAUATION

YAMAMOTO STUDY EVAUATION

by Susan Bantu

​In the picture you can see the researcher holding a clip board and collecting data in the study. You can also see the chimp handing out a tool to another chimpanzee. 

Multiple Choice

This type of observation method is known as....

• Overt Observation

• Unstructured Observation

• Naturalistic Observation

• Covert Observation

​There were three levels of the IV. The correct tool being given was either the stick or the straw. The results show that targeted helping occurred in the bar chart below.

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Multiple Choice

What is Theory of Mind (Yamamoto)

• Reading the mind of another person

• Understanding the mental state of another person

• Helping without being asked to do so

• A cognitive found in chimpanzees in this study

Multiple Choice

Which of the following quantitative data was not produced in Yamamoto?

• First object offer

• Correct tool offers

• Ayumu's behaviour

• Upon request offer

Multiple Choice

Which chimp had the highest targeted helping in the cannnot see condition?

• Cleo

• Ayumu

• Ai

• Pal

• Pan

Multiple Choice

Which chimp had the lowest targeted helping behaviour in all conditions?

• Cleo

• Ayumu

• Ai

• Pal

• Pan

Poll

Where was most targeted helping seen in the study?

• 1st Can See

• 2nd Can See

• Cannot See

Multiple Choice

What is targeted helping?

• Being altruistic to another chimp when they request help

• Showing empathy to another chimp when in need.

• Giving any type of help to another chimp based on task.

• Giving appropriate help to another chimp based on task.

Multiple Choice

What was the difference between the 'can see' and 'cannot see' conditions?

• The length of meters from the floor in each booth

• The tools that were placed in the booth for the chimp

• The visual feedback being able to view what the chimp needed or not

• Being able to get a juice reward or not

Multiple Choice

What was tolerated theft transfer?

• when a chimp offered a tool

• when a chimp raised a tool

• when a chimp snatched an object

• when a chimp gave a tool before being requested

Multiple Choice

The chosen experimental design has positive impact on the validity by ...

• reducing participants' variables

• reducing order effects

• going through one level of the IV

• improving ecological validity

Multiple Choice

One of the following is not true about the chimps...

• They had not been trained in two-tool tasks

• They were studied in mother-child pairs

• They were socially housed

• They did not use any symbols in the study

Multiple Choice

Which conclusion is incorrect? - Yamamoto

• Chimps need to see task in order to offer the correct tool.

• Chimpanzees help but only in response to a request.

• Chimpanzees show targeted helping behavior to conspecific

• Chimpanzees give spontaneous help to conspecifics

Multiple Choice

During the familiarization phase, there were __________; 5 minute trials; ________ per day. (Yamamoto)

• 7 ; 2

• 4 ; 2

• 8 ; 1

• 10 ; 3

Multiple Choice

Which of the following dimensions are correct for the Hole in the booth. - Yamamoto

• 12.5 x 35 cm and 1 metre above the floor

• 20.5 x 45 and 2 metres above the floor

• 13.5 x 25 cm and 3 metres above the floor

• 30.5 x 15 and 1/2 metre above the floor

Multiple Choice

Why did the researchers repeat the second 'Can See' condition?

• To check if differences in tool offer in the first two conditions was due to ecological validity

• To check if differences in tool offer in the first two conditions was due to spontaneous helping

• To check if differences in tool offer in the first two conditions was due to the experiment order

• To check if differences in tool offer in the first two conditions was due to participant variables