BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Galah, Structured Prediction, Habituation
3 Apr 2018
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Instinct: a behaviour pattern that reliably develops in individuals that receive adequate nutrition and that is given in function form on its rst performance. Call types: begging calls: begging for food from parents, alarm calls: given in presence of predator, contact calls: maintain association with parents/ ock when mobile. Galah raised by pink cockatoos will give off galah calls (begging /alarms) , have learned contact calls of cockatoo. Habituation: repeated stimuli without appropriate feedback or unimportant stimuli (ignore clothes) i. e. birds don"t respond to hide from leaves/ small birds only bigger threats. Imprinting: structured learning = critical periods, life-long learning (imprinting affects you the whole life), often involves mating (conrad lawrence, geese thought he was mother, rst movement they saw after hatching, chicks imprinted on them) Associative learning: association of stimuli (classical conditioning or operant conditioning) Insight learning: correct behaviour on rst try (by reasoning, not instinct)
