BIO152H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Monarch Butterfly, Blue Jay, Classical Conditioning
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Most behaviour involves interaction between inheritance and learning. Occurs when behaviour changes in response to specific life experiences. For species above, faps are relatively rare; each individual is capable of a animals learn. Is important in species that have large brains and complex social interactions from interactions they have with other organisms and their environment: associative learning. Blue jay tries monarch butterfly and gets sick and next time avoids it: classical conditioning. Individuals are trained be experience to give the same response to more than one stimulus. Classic example is pavlov"s dog: operant conditioning. A learning process in which consequences which follow a response determine whether the behaviour will be repeated. Behaviour that has been reinforces will likely be repeats. Learned irrelevance: occurs when an animal learns to ignore the cue. Cognition: recognition and manipulation of facts about the world and the anility to form concepts and insights.
