Individual Learning

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What is Individual Learning

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A relatively permanent chang ein behavior as a result of experience

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Phenotype plasticity

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The ability of an organism to produce different phenotypes depending on environmentla changes

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Colony defense of sponges is an example of what?

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Phenotypic plasticity

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Phenotypic plsticity does not ecessarily imply

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learning

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Flushing behavior by birds for insects is an example of

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Plastic phenotype, but not learning

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Three types of experience that can lead to learning

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Single Stimulus
Stimulus-Stimulus
Response Reinforcer

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Stimulus

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Some Arbitrary cue not normally found in the environment

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Sensitization

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If over time the subject increaes attention on th stimulus

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Habitualization

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Conditioning to a stimulus

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Pavlovian Conditioning

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If response to the second stimulus occurs only with presentation of the first stimulus

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Conditioned Stimulus

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Stimulus that does not elicit a response until paired with another

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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Stimulus that elicits a strong response without the need of training

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Conditioned Response

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The response associated

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Appetitive Stimulus

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Stimulus considered positive

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Aversive Stimulus

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Stimulus considered negative

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Excitatory Cponditioning

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Conditioned stimulus predicts that unconditioned stimulus will occur

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Second Order Conditioning

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Overshadowing

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By pairing stimuli the first stimulus no longer becomes in control

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Blocking

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Latent Inhibition

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Association with a stimulus doesnt happen right away but over time

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Gpoal learning is also known as

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operant learning, instrumental conditioning

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Law of effect

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if a response in the prescence of a stimulus is followed by a reward, association between response and reward is strengthened and vice ersa with punishment

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Goal directed learning is hard to parse out under…

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natural conditions

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Ecological Learning

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Different ecological conditions may favor the evolution of sifferent types of learning

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Opitimal Forgetting

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How long should you remember something?

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Extinciton Curves

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the decay of a paired association, may vary depending on factors