What I actually learned from Comparative Psychology
I was mostly right about what I would learn in Comparative Psychology. I do feel like I anthropomorphize animal behavior less and I have a better understanding of what types of conclusions are okay to draw from observation and what types are not. I expected to learn more about how animals and humans are the same and different than I did. I mean, I suppose anything you learn about an animal could be compared to the knowledge you already posses about humans, but I expected more of what we read about to compare animals to humans directly. I didn't expect to have a better understanding of what language is and how it is different from simple communication, but I do. I learned less about specific animal research methods than I expected to, but I learned more about individual research projects which I honesty prefer. I learned about the three R's, and not the recycling ones either. The three R's of research help people working with animal subjects to lessen the disturb
