BIEB 166 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Honeyeater, Latent Learning, Great Tit
8 Nov 2013
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Familiarization with a stimulus without obvious positive or negative reinforcement (at the moment it is learning) Put pine cones and place around the burrow. While the wasp was away, the experimenter created a sham nest, with cones around and poked a fake whole. If the wasp has learned the location of the nest, it would search for the sham nest instead of its real one. Not rewarded or punished as it learned the information. The moment it is learning is before it leaves the nest, so even though there is a punishment after it comes back, that is not an associate learning. Problem solving through perception of configurational relationships as opposed to trial and error; nebulous. Playing with the tools, and finally use the tools to solve problems. Can be insight learning, but also can be something random. Use operant conditioning to do the experiment in order to prove that the animal is not natural behavior.
