Types of learning in animals
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- Created on: 18-06-16 17:47
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- Ethology - learning
- Imprinting
- Young animals copying their parents
- Lorenz
- Young ducklings followed him around as he was the first being they saw
- They perhaps 'thought' he was their mother
- Young ducklings followed him around as he was the first being they saw
- Examples
- Ducklings following their mother to learn to walk and swim
- Classical conditioning
- Animal learns without trying
- Pavlov
- Russian scientist (1849 - 1936)
- Noticed that dogs salivate when shown food
- Rang a bell when he gave his dogs food
- Dogs salivated whenever they heard the bell - even if there was no food
- Rang a bell when he gave his dogs food
- Examples
- Sound of a leash assosiated with going on a walk
- Innate response to a learned stimulus
- Habituation
- Simplest type of learning
- Stopping responding to a stimulus which has no effect
- Examples
- Cat not responding to the bell on its' collar
- Sheep who live near a busy road not being scared by the noise of cars
- Operant conditioning
- Animal learns to do something by being rewarded or punished
- Training
- Examples
- Assistance dogs
- Animal tricks
- Working animals
- Sniffer dogs
- Police horses
- Sheep dogs
- Imprinting
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