Individual Learning Flashcards
What is Individual Learning
A relatively permanent chang ein behavior as a result of experience
Phenotype plasticity
The ability of an organism to produce different phenotypes depending on environmentla changes
Colony defense of sponges is an example of what?
Phenotypic plasticity
Phenotypic plsticity does not ecessarily imply
learning
Flushing behavior by birds for insects is an example of
Plastic phenotype, but not learning
Three types of experience that can lead to learning
Single Stimulus
Stimulus-Stimulus
Response Reinforcer
Stimulus
Some Arbitrary cue not normally found in the environment
Sensitization
If over time the subject increaes attention on th stimulus
Habitualization
Conditioning to a stimulus
Pavlovian Conditioning
If response to the second stimulus occurs only with presentation of the first stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus
Stimulus that does not elicit a response until paired with another
Unconditioned Stimulus
Stimulus that elicits a strong response without the need of training
Conditioned Response
The response associated
Appetitive Stimulus
Stimulus considered positive
Aversive Stimulus
Stimulus considered negative
Excitatory Cponditioning
Conditioned stimulus predicts that unconditioned stimulus will occur
Second Order Conditioning
Overshadowing
By pairing stimuli the first stimulus no longer becomes in control
Blocking
Latent Inhibition
Association with a stimulus doesnt happen right away but over time
Gpoal learning is also known as
operant learning, instrumental conditioning
Law of effect
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
Goal directed learning is hard to parse out under…
natural conditions
Ecological Learning
Different ecological conditions may favor the evolution of sifferent types of learning
Opitimal Forgetting
How long should you remember something?
Extinciton Curves
the decay of a paired association, may vary depending on factors
