Psychology 2210A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Bird Vocalization, Song 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2210A/B
• Professor: Krista Macpherson

Document Summary

Learned white-crowned sparrows have regional dialect. Species specific song must be an innate mechanism for recognizing a species specific song. Plastic song species specific notes and song elements but not yet fully formed song production. The initial process of using words children using words incorrectly. Song control centre place where animals can make songs. Crystallized song fully developed species specific song that is similar to tutor (demonstrator) Bird have system in their brain specifically for song learning. End-state learning final state a demonstrator gets to that the learner wants to get to: birds copying the song (end-state) of others. Observer is also the demonstrator as they are learning from themselves. Thorndike puzzle box: if a cat observed another cat getting out of the box, then the cat could complete the box quicker than the previous cat. Testing for imitation with objects: imitation an observer reproduces actions of demonstrator in an attempt to reach end-state.