Social Learning Flashcards
Cultural Transmission
A system of information transfer that affects an individuals phenotype by means of either teaching or some form of learning
Cultural transmission is
durable, hertiable, and fast
Imo
Picky eater japanese maqaque, washing sweet potatoes to get sand off, throwing wheat into the air. Other troop memebers saw and began washing and throwing wheat in the air.
Glance and Stone Play
Overtime study found that stone play in japanese maquaque group increased dramatically over time.
Social learning is
social observers learning specific beahviors or responses from models
Social learning is not
Local Enhancement
Social Facilitiation
Local Enhancement
Simple rule of being drawn to a location of a model animal becaue an animal is doing a speciic behavior, this bypasses learning about the environement
Social Facilitation
The mere presence of a model is enough to facilitate learning about the environment but you are not actually learning about the model.
Raven ex.