PSYC 100 Lecture : psyc 100 class notes

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel J Levitin

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Come pick up new sets of ntc"s in our office (stewart biology, n7/8) For updates on when new sets will be out, check out: http://mpsamazing. pbworks. com. So one of the principles of learning is that learning through observation is very common and it occurs in a wide variety of settings. Learning can be passed on through cultural transmission, not just through observation and not just through genetics. I mean, there are some obvious cases of genetic learning spiders don"t learn to make a web in conventional sense human type learning spiders don"t model or observe the behavior of other spiders. They"re just born knowing how to do it. So it"s not something that"s learned, it"s imprinted, it"s implanted. So, spiders don"t learn very much from the environment at all. Birds are preprogrammed to sing certain songs but those songs can be modified by exposure to the cohort that they"re living with.