Learning behaviours
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?- Created by: Jack Old
- Created on: 03-05-13 11:13
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- Learning Behaviour
- Learned behaviour
- Operant conditioning
- In oparent condtioning, an animal learns to do something or not do something through being rewaded or bunished, and is a form of training.
- Training guide dogs for the blind
- Train dolphins and sea-lions to jump through hoops in marine shows
- Train sniffer dogs to find people/search for illegal drugs, etc
- Train police horces to remain calm in large crowds or noisy situations
- In oparent condtioning, an animal learns to do something or not do something through being rewaded or bunished, and is a form of training.
- Some behaviours are not instinctive; they have to be learned through conditioning.
- Operant conditioning
- Instinctive behaviour
- Instinctive behaviours are behaviours inherited from parents and aren't affected by the environment
- E.g Suckling by a newborn mammal is an instinct
- Instinctive behaviours are behaviours inherited from parents and aren't affected by the environment
- Imprinting
- Imprinting is a behaviour only seein in animals of a young age, and is when they copy the first animal they see
- Young animals can also copy humans too!
- Imprinting is a behaviour only seein in animals of a young age, and is when they copy the first animal they see
- Habituation
- Habituation is beieved to be the simplest type of learning in animals, and is when an animal learns to ignore something that doesnt effect them
- An example of this is a cat ignoring the bell os its collar after hearing it a lot
- Habituation is beieved to be the simplest type of learning in animals, and is when an animal learns to ignore something that doesnt effect them
- Learned behaviour
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