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Which is smarter?
Why Animals Learn????
______________- The ability to
produce different phenotypes
depending on environmental
condtions.
Length of Lifespan
Changing Conditions
Why NOT learn?
It’s expensive!
What animals learn…
Where home is located
What food they should eat or avoid
Learning about your mate
Learning about Familial relationships
Learning about aggression
Innate Non-Associative Associative
Learning Learning
Social Learning
Lateral
Copying Imitation
Oblique
TEACHING
Non-Associative
Sensitization – Becoming more sensitive to a
stimulus over time (rubbing your arm)
Habituation – Becoming less sensitive to a
stimulus over time (sound of cars by your house).
Spatial Learning
Associative Learning Basics:
Stimulus
Response
Unconditioned
Stimulus (US)
– The stimulus
that naturally
elicits the
behavior (dog
food).
Conditioned
Stimulus (CS)
– The one the
dog is learning
(The bell)
Conditioned
Response –
response from
conditioned
stimulus (Dog
salivates when
the bell is
ringing).
Unconditioned
response?
Appetitive
Stimulus – A
positive
stimulus (food,
shelter, mate).
Aversive
Stimulus –
Negative
(poison, shock)
Second-order conditioning
_______________
-Two stimuli learned
together
- One is removed,
reduced response.
- In this case,
overshadowing of the
blue stick by the red
light has taken place
in group 2.
______________
1 One stimuli is
learned (blue
stick) and then
later, another (red
light)
When two stimuli
2 are learned, the
inability to pair
just one of them
to the stimuli.
3
-Edward Thorndike
(Cats)
- B.F. Skinner
(Rats)
- The animal learns
that a particular
action results in a
outcome
- Operant
Video
Response (pushing
the lever)
Operant Conditioning vs. Classical Conditioning
Classical Conditioning – Learning by association
Operant Conditioning – Learning by consequences
Zenaida Doves
learn faster when
they live in groups.
Factors Affecting Learning – High Anxiety
and Low Anxiety