What Kind of Mind: Lesson 3 Psychology and Thought

Lesson 3: Psychology and Thought

This lesson considers similarities and differences between humans and chimpanzees, looking at shared ancestry. There is a video about a piece of research carried out on capuchin monkeys and babies.

• How do we compare to our ancestors? 
• How can we find out about other minds? 
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of research about animals? 

Skills:

• Curriculum for Excellence SCN 2-10a, SCN 2-11a, SCN 2-14b, SCN 2-20a, SCN 2-20b
• Team work and communication
• Reporting information
• Application of new ideas to the scientific method

Key Resources:

• Lesson slides, L3: Lesson slides with in-bedded videos and prompt images.
• Lesson plan, L3: Lesson plan, primarily summarizing content and learning intentions.
• Teacher notes, L3: Further notes on the content of the lesson plan, including instructions for the non-worksheet activities.
• Annotated slides, L3: Additional information specific to the different lecture slides.

Worksheets: (These resources can also be easily printed as part of the student work booklet)

• Blank primate family tree: Blank tree to fill in with images below, showing the evolution of primates. (Slide 7, answers on slide 9)
• Images for primate family tree task: Primate names and images for task above
• Primate hands: More developed adaption task sheet, slide 11
• Capuchin monkey video, viewer response sheet: Video comprehension sheet for the video on slide 16 

 Printable resources for all lessons:

• Student workbook: This booklet contains all of the written class activities for students, condensing the resources into a booklet of five sheets of paper (so 20, A5 pages for the students to work on). Although the PDF may look like the pages are in an *interesting* order, if printed correctly they will fold into the booklet. To do this, ensure that printing is double sided, and that the printer is set to flip pages on the short edge. 
• Student prints: This printing resource contains all of the individual sheets to be used by the students throughout the project such as the images to be stuck into their booklets and the researcher questionnaires. The document is designed to be printed double sided, meaning that there are some blank pages so individual resources can be separated. [Page breakdown: (P1-2) Pre-program questionnaire, (P3-P4) Post-program questionnaire, (P5) Lesson 1 Images for intelligence task, (P6) Blank, (P7) Lesson 3 Images for the family tree task, (P8) Blank, (P9) Lesson 6 Images for intelligence task.]
• Teacher prints: This printing resource contains all sheets the teachers will use throughout the project  including teacher questionnaires and answer sheets. The document is designed to be printed double sided, meaning that there are some blank pages so that each individual resource can be separated. [Page breakdown: (P1-P4) Pre-program questionnaire, (P5-P9) Post-program questionnaire, (P10) blank, (P11) Lesson 3 answers, (P12) blank, (P13) Lesson 4 communication task.] 

"Living Links" Learning Programme at RZSS

A bespoke learning programme of interactive, interdisciplinary and online sessions on themes from What Kind of Mind? has been developed by the "Living Links" collaboration between the University of St Andrews and RZSS aiming to deepen learners' connections with nature, increase awareness of how our minds affect our health and wellbeing, and promote an understanding of the role of research in scientific development.

This free resource can be found on the RZSS Discovery and Learning ZOOdle (Zoo "Digital Learning Environment") website at https://discover.rzss.org.uk/livinglinks.