Animal Training - Stimulus Response

• 1)    stimulus
• 2)     receptor
• 3)    Co-ordinating processing
• 4)    effector
• 5)    response

Learning ‘a change in behaviour resulting in experience from similar situation’. A learned reaction has a stimulus and a receptor, as well as an effector and a response. But the co-ordinating process is more complex, different individuals will respond differently.

Where an animal learns by watching another animal’s experience.

e.g., lamb recognising concentrated food as food, chickens watching a video to learn a skill