Learning
Conditioning
Examples
5 Factors that make Punishment Successful
Misc.
100
Process by which long-lasting changes in behavior are acquired as a result of experience
What is Learning?
100
Pavlov--> Conditioned stimulus brings a conditioned response
What is Classical Conditioning?
100
Penguins coming back from eating in the sea and being able to find their mate and chick
What is Parent-offspring recognition?
100
Really strong behavior
What is Intensity?
100
Who came up with Operant Conditioning?
Who is Skinner?
200
Learning the layout of the environment and remembering where activities took place or where objects were left
What is Spatial Learning?
200
Animal Continues to respond, receive feedback and respond again until the goal is reached (Practice makes perfect)
What is Operant Conditioning?
200
Birds hiding seeds for winter time
What is Spatial Learning?
200
Occurs right after the behavior happened
What is Immediacy?
200
You can make an animal fearful, anxious, and passive if you use this too much.
What is Punishment?
300
Learning by observing another's behavior
What is Observable Learning?
300
Reward Behavior that is close to desired behavior, over time you only reward the behavior that is desired (used to train circus animals)
What is Shaping?
300
Chickens Scratching on concrete
What is Instinctive Drift?
300
Works better when it happens every time
What is Consistency?
300
Cycle changes (day/night/seasons) may adapt physiology or behavior to cope
What is Adaptive Mechanism?
400
Learning is this, because when an animal learns information, it can travel to new areas
What are Adaptive Mechanisms?
400
Decrease or disappearence of a built-in natural response to a stimulus that occurs when it repeatedly encounters the stimulus
What is Habituation?
400
Wild Rats are Bate shy
What is Learned Taste Aversion
400
Intense right from the start (mild enables learning and allows the animal to get used to it)
What is Suddenness?
400
Animals stop or slow down a behavior due to a painful, unpleasant event
What is Avoidance Behavior?
500
Kohler founded this type of learning when he realized that chimps could solve problems
What is Insightful Learning?
500
Learning can not be directly seen, it must be __________
What is Inferred?
500
Scarecrows used to scare off birds and rabbits in a garden or field
What is Habituation?
500
Better short than long (long allows for adaptations)
What is Brevity?
500
Trial-and-error learning (hungry cat, food in levered box/puzzle box)
What is Instrumental Conditioning?
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