Chapter 13

2. An understanding of quantity.
4. The system of grammatical rules by which symbols are arranged.
5. The inherited predisposition in humans to be drawn to or bond with nature, including other animals.
8. A special category of communication which has key features—symbols, syntax, and semantics—that distinguish it from other forms of communication.
10. a horse that was supposed to be able to do lots of difficult mathematical sums and solve complicated problems.
12. The ability to associate arbitrary symbols with objects or events.
13. The tendency to attribute mental states to other individuals.
14. The process of sending and receiving a signal of some sort.
16. are created mainly by taking material from one or more natural languages.
17. The study of information processing across a variety of species.
20. The ability to perceive oneself as separate from others.

1. A form of reasoning in which the relationship between two objects can be inferred by knowing the relationship of each to a third object.
3. is a method of communication that uses characters or images to represent concepts.
6. an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury.
7. A proximate cause is an event which is closest to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result.
9. A memory task in which the animal is first shown a sample stimulus and then, following a delay, is required to select that stimulus out of a group of alternative stimuli.
11. an experimental procedure developed in the late 1960s as an analog to the normal updating of memory.
15. A cue that is used to represent some experience or object that you can then share with someone else.
18. the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology.
19. The meaning associated with symbols.