Welfare lecture 2

Question 1

Key elements in learning behavior to horses

Answer 1

• Be consequent
• Praise when right
• Repeating

Question 2

Associative learning

Answer 2

Animal learn that difference properties of environment, or different stimuli, are associated

Question 3

Conditioning

Answer 3

A response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment as a result of reinforcement

Question 4

Thorndike’s law of effect: positive

Answer 4

Positive reinforcers increase probability of behaviour being repeated

Question 5

Thorndike’s law of effect:

Negative

Answer 5

Negative reinforcement increase probability of response when they are removed.

Question 6

Why is timing important

Answer 6

Otherwise, the behavior is not linked to the reinforcement and learning will fail –> ideal within 0.5 seconds

Question 7

Negative reinforcement

Answer 7

The response that results in taking away aversive stimulus gives the horse control

Question 8

Operant conditionering

Answer 8

Start with behavior that occurs by chance, reward it