BCS 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operant Conditioning, Edward C. Tolman, Classical Conditioning
30 Sep 2016
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Behavior develops in all individuals despite varying environments. Can be triggered or enhanced by learning. Behavior that, once triggered, will progress in a pre-specified manner. Some are triggered by an external stimulus. Male sticklebacks have red bellies prepare nests etc. Red object is releaser stimulus for her innate egg laying behavior. Objects with extreme and unnatural features that release an innate behavior. Suckling , startle, palmar grasping, toe curling. Not yet known how many innate behaviors there are. 1) classical conditioning (associative learning, detecting cause and effect) Once cs has been learned, the addition of a second us has little effect (blocking) Some animals live long enough to benefit from learning. Animal discovers response that leads to reinforcement through trial and error (shaping) Animals spontaneously combine info to produce behavior that is not explicitly trained or conditioned. Behavior is defined by more than learned associations more than one kind of learning.
