PSYCH-UA 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Response Bias
19 Oct 2017
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Epared to keep going back to the same place for food, they are prepared to keep going back to the same plac how can motivation restrict response flexibility in learning situations. Teaching the animal a task that violates its niche will be e for water. Why don"t animals display a lot of response flexibility in escape/avoidance learning. Because they have innate species specific defense reactions (ssdr) that they display in threatening situations. How can motivation restrict response flexibility in learning situations. Teaching the animal a task that violates its nic met with difficulties. Explain how thorndike discovered that there were biological boundaries to learning. Thorndike could teach cats to do a number of things with their paws to get freedom, but he could not teach them to do other things (groom) Phase 1: learning to turn left or right for water or food, water group performed better.
