A Japanese macaque named “Kiki” sees one of its group members named “Hiro” washing a potato. Kiki then copies Hiro and starts washing her own potatoes. From this, we can infer that Kiki thought Hiro was washing the dirt off to make the potato taste better. Kiki wants her potatoes to taste better too, so that is why she copied the washing behavior. In reality, Kiki was simply drawn to the location or behavior and there was no inference of desired goals. What principle best describes this situation?
a. stimulus enhancement
b. the comparative relations hypothesis
c. anthropomorphism
d. the transitive inference fallacy
a. stimulus enhancement
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