Psychology 2210A/B Chapter 4: Animal-Textbook-Chapter-4
16 Sep 2016
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Japanese quail have courting behaviors they exhibit when females present and when they are exposed to stimuli previously associated with receptive females. If sexual behavior not influenced by so many different factors no species would survive makes sense behavior is flexible enough to be elicited by more than one set of stimuli. Forming an association between environmental stimuli and sexual experience facilitates short term behaviors (courting) and also increase long-term consequences of these behaviors (reproductive success) Associative learning may also influence sexual responses in humans although most of the work on this topic relates to deviant behaviors. Idea that learned associations affect behavior dates back to aristotle formed principles on how ideas or thoughts are connected. Ebbinghaus tested laws put forth by british associationists using himself as a subject he presented a series of associative laws explaining how memories are formed. Many influenced by pavlov (digestive system of dogs) work on conditioning = a form of associative learning.
