PSYCH 2TT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cultural Learning, Japanese Macaque, Pan Flute
9 Sep 2013
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The anecdotes studies done in mid 1900s (not necessarily controlled); before these observations, animals thought to be incapable of social behaviour and social learning. Non-imitative social learning; local enhancement and social facilitation. Social learning can be much faster avoid the trail and error learning: across generations, avoids the loss of information in the death of an individual, a rare insight can spread rapidly through the population. Imo the monkey (japanese macaque) was the first individual who washed potatoes to remove sand other monkeys started to do the same later. Imo solved a problem others saw solution to problem and copied behaviour: evidence for social learning (may not be a strong case for social learning) The rate of increase in behaviour was low (not exponential like expected in social learning) Some monkeys are not washing not washing rate stable. Human bias macaques would not naturally be playing with sweet potatoes on the beach (humans placed the potatoes there)
