BIO152H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Monarch Butterfly, Blue Jay, Classical Conditioning
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Outline: learning, cognition, use of tools in the animal kingdom, adaptive significance of learning, categories of social acts, altruism kin selection, natural selection and behavior. Learning: modification of behavior by experience, most behavior involves an interaction between inheritance and learning. Learning occurs when: behavior changes in response to specific life experiences, important in species that have large brains and complex social interactions, in such species, faps (fixed action patterns ex. Spiders building a web) are relatively rare; each individual is capable of a wide range of behavior: animals learn from interactions they have with other organisms and their environment. Associate something with the action that happens to you. Blue jay eats monarch butterfly and it gets sick so it learns not to eat it again. Individuals are trained by experience to give the same response to more than one stimulus.
