PS261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Facilitation, Operant Conditioning, Japanese Macaque
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Social learning: social cognition, knowledge about others in your group, social interactions between group members, hierarchy ex. Pecking order in chickens: dominance, in primates, things that relate to other individuals in your group. Etc. knowing your friends name: learning things from others in your group, about the location of food, types of predators, etc, social learning learning things about the world from other individuals, ex. Watching game shows, let the audience votes and pick their answer. More opinions you get the more likely you are to be correct. Food preference transmission in rats: one rat, is eating from a food cup, cup is red. It means then that the food is flavored in cinnamon. He hasn"t had it before but he is hungry so he eats it. If presented with only the food smell -> no preference transmitted. The observer rat smells him but still obtains the preference of that food.
