1. Self-awareness in animals
... -aware, as in order to understand that others thoughts are different from their own, they must realise that they themselves have thoughts in the first place. In humans, the most common test for a theory of mind is known as the Sally-Anne test, and uses two dolls to present a false-belief situation. What commonly happens when the test is performed on ... research available, it appears that whilst there are obvious similarities between self-awareness in both animals and humans, the applicability of the research it limited, and it would make more sense to investigate human awareness by actu...
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