著者

瀧本 彩加 堀 裕亮 藤田 和生

出版者

日本動物心理学会

雑誌

動物心理学研究 (ISSN:09168419)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.61, no.2, pp.141-153, 2011 (Released:2011-12-19)

参考文献数

72

被引用文献数

8 2

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Horses (Equus caballus) have lived with humans for over 5500 years. Despite this, their cognitive abilities have not received much research attention compared with those of dogs (Canis familiaris), probably because horses are not as familiar to humans as dogs and have been considered to be difficult to test. Recent studies, however, have revealed their sophisticated social cognitive abilities with regard to both conspecifics and humans. In this paper we first describe fundamental characteristics of horse perception and horse sociality. Then, we review horses' learning and cognitive abilities, especially social cognitive abilities shown among conspecifics and in the horse-human relationship. Several studies have provided evidence that horses possess sensitivity to human-given cues and attentional states. Future studies should investigate ontogeny of horses' cognition and the influence of effects including training history and the exposure to humans, and possibly test how such cognition is supported by genetics.

著者

堀 裕亮

出版者

心理学評論刊行会

雑誌

心理学評論 (ISSN:03861058)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.3, pp.230-234, 2017 (Released:2019-02-07)

参考文献数

16

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Due to the recent “reproducibility crisis”, the methodology of psychology has been changing. In this situation, the statistical education for undergraduate students majoring in psychology should also be changed. Statistical hypothesis testing and p-values have been the main topics in conventional statistics classes for psychology students. However, it has been pointed out that the emphasis on p-values has lowered the reproducibility of science, including psychology. In this paper, I propose that a main theme of statistics classes for psychology students should be shifted from statistical hypothesis testing to the concept of statistical modelling. Understanding the concept fitting probability distribution to data is a fundamental concept of inferential statistics. This idea will facilitate students’ understanding of some different statistical approaches. It will also be important to teach the students to refrain from making a dichotomous decision based upon a single index.