BIOL 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cultural Learning, Eurasian Blue Tit, Mirror Neuron
1 Aug 2017
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Cultural transmission: transfer of information from individuals to individuals through social learning or teaching both within and between generations of animals. Social learning is defined as the process of learning by watching others. Cultural transmission is a system of information transfer that affects an individuals phenotype by means of either teaching or some form of social learning. Cultural transmission is the spread of information from individual to individual. What an individual learns via. individual learning disappears when an individual dies but when cultural transmission is in play what is learned by one individual may be passed down through generations. Describes a situation where individuals learn from others not so much by doing what they observe but more so as by being drawn to a particular area because of another individual (model) in that location. When local enhancement is in play a model simply draws attention to some aspect of the environment by the action it undertakes there.
