PSYC 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Table Tennis
25 Sep 2016
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Poke pigeon to hit the ball so that the other one cannot catch it, it would be given a treat. Not all animals learn in a fundamentally similar fashion. Flavored water (gustatory cues) vs loud noise (auditory cues) Some can learn of smells- put the bee could not. Depending on the species certain types of learning (olfactory, and auditory) are more important than others. Net benefits associated with learning greater or less than the net benefits that might be associated with a fixed genetic response to some stimulus (innate response) Natural selection should favor the ability to learn over genetic transmission of a fixed trait when the environment changes often, but not too often. In a trade of between learning and life span. For the normal population, younger insects learn faster, have a greater learning index than the long-lived population. Long-live young live longer but have a lower learning index.
