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Do Animals Have Language? | Irene Pepperberg | Escaped Sapiens #35
The Escaped Sapiens Podcast
How Long Can You Get Him to Wait For?
Griffin was able to compete at the level of a sort of a five year old child in this one task. He's better than six to eight year olds on a visual working memory task. The marsh mellow test is where you see whether they can wait for a greater right imean. And he does it. How long can you get him to wait for? 15 minutes. That's almost tortureis almost torture f for both of us, cause wou're sitting, you're standing there, watching the clock,. You know, tick away and you're going, please don't eat this. Please don't. Please do't.
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Speaker 2
But so griffin was able to compete at the level of a sort of a five year old child in this one task. Is there something like a an i c osome like number that you can put down for general intelligence forno would sit? Since griffin could compete at that level on this particular task, would you also expect him to do as well against five year olds in other tasks, or is it very specific? Well,
Speaker 1
it turns out he's as good as a five year old an a, basically a probability task that p gave young children. He's better than six to eight year olds on a visual working memory task. K am a couple of other tasks that we're in the process of looking at. So the answer is, you know, on a lot of the tasks we've given him so far. Yes. I mean, he does the marsh mellow test. You know what that is?
Speaker 2
This is the one where you see whether they can wait for a greater right imean. What are, what are you testing for? The for
Speaker 1
executive function, basically, do they have theo ability to sit there and say, well, if i wait or think it through, there's a really nice nut here, but if i wait, i'm going to get a lot more nuts. It's worth waiting for, ok? And he does it. How
Speaker 2
long can you get him to wait for? 15 minutes.
Speaker 1
That's almost tortureis almost torture f for both of us, cause wou're sitting, you're standing there, watching the clock, you know, tick away, and you're going, please don't eat this. Please don't. Please do't. You can't look at him. You can't look at him. You can only look at him through a camera or through the corner of your eye, you know. And he's sitting there and he's pre ing and he's falling asleep, and he's squawking. It's like now he's trying to distract himself because it's so boring. But he knows, you know, i'm going to get this big batch of nuts if i can wait just a little bit longer.
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