Behavior quiz Flashcards
What is an accurate statement regarding evolution & animal behaviour?
Evolution strongly influences both unlearned and learned behaviour, as the capacity to learn is itself an adaption
Why does evolution influence learned & unlearned behaviour?
There is nothing without genes. It’s always nature and nurture
How can it be that learning is an evolutionary adaptation
Animals with genes that permitted the capacity to adjust one’s behaviour depending on contingencies experienced during the lifetime of the animal performed better than animals without this capability and passed on this trait
What is learning?
Flexibility software! Ability to change behaviour depending on what is going on in real time.
All learning is directly comparable to evolution with the sole difference being the time scale involved.
Is there a selection of favourable or adaptive responses in OC?
All learning is analogous to evolution insofar as responses that work - to gain reinforcement, avoid punishment and prepare oneself for inevitable stimuli - are selected for in much the same way that genes that work are selected for
What is an evolutionary adaption?
defined as the alteration or adjustment in structure or habits which is hereditary, and by which a species or individual improves its ability to survive and pass on its genes in relation to the environment
What awe should we take away from the webinar about genetics??
The ability to learn is a stunning adaption.
What awe should we take away from the webinar in regards to learning??
The ability to learn is a stunning adaptation.
What very basic principle of animal behaviour underlies the absolute mandate to provide motivation in dog training?
Movenent - behaviour - is very, very metabolically expensive and so animals who perform actions without good reason are selected out of the gene pool
What very basic principle [fundamental] of animal behaviour underlies the absolute mandate (we have to provide motivation) to provide motivation in dog training?
Movement - behaviour - is very, very metabolically expensive and so animals who perform actions without good reason are selected out of the gene pool
There is no free lunch
Why is moving cheap to some dogs e.g. chocolate labs
Selective breeding alters selection pressures
They have excess energy to use, which motivates movements
They have an adaptive program to move to condition bodies
What is a misfire
A FAP being triggered by/in response to the wrong thing.
What do we mean by wrong?
It isn’t something that will aid survival & reproduction - i.e., serves the animal’s fitness
What is the point of caching
Saving calories for later
