2304 Bio: Exposure learning

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What is Lloyd Morgan's Canon?
Invoke only those mental processes necessary to explain the observed behaviour.
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What is 'Exposure learning'?
The simplest form of learning - exposure to object or situation that evokes a new behaviour.
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What did Marler (1980s) find with male White Crown Sparrows?
Sparrows learn their song over a critical period and if missed, they develop an impoverished song.
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'Birds cannot learn other birds song.'
False.
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Define 'Habituation.'
Response to stimulus that is repeatedly presented will decline over a number of presentations.
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Define 'Sensitisation.'
Response to stimulus can increase over a number of presentations.
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What is 'Latent inhibition'?
Familiar stimulus takes longer to acquire meaning than a new stimulus.
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What did McLaren et al. (1994) find with rats?
Speed of acquisition in learning decreased due to pre-exposure to the stimulus.
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What is the face inversion effect?
Better at identifying & discriminating faces when they are upright not inverted.
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What did McLaren et al. (1989) find?
Any stimulus can be represented as a set of features and it is difficult to discriminate between 2 similar stimuli.
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What is 'Exposure learning'?

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The simplest form of learning - exposure to object or situation that evokes a new behaviour.

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What did Marler (1980s) find with male White Crown Sparrows?

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'Birds cannot learn other birds song.'

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Define 'Habituation.'

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