Chapter 5

Question 1

Individual learning

Answer 1

Permanent change in behavior due to experience

Question 2

Phenotypic plasticity

Answer 2

Producing different phenotypes based on the environment

Question 3

Conditioned behaviors

Answer 3

Unnatural behaviors

Question 4

Generalizations

Answer 4

Associate one thing with everything like it

Question 5

Single Stimulus Responses

Answer 5

Habituation, Sensitization, Imprinting

Question 6

Habituation vs Fatigue/Sensory Adaptation

Answer 6

Habituation stops responding due to lack of reward/punishment
Not learning, ignoring from fatigue

Question 7

Stimulus Stimulus: Classical Conditioning

Answer 7

Response becomes associated with the stimulus it had

Question 8

Response reinforcer: Operant Conditioning

Answer 8

Behavior modified through rewards/punishments

Question 9

Positive vs negative punishment

Answer 9

reduce behavior by adding aversive stimulus
reduce behavior by removing appetitive stimulus

Question 10

Positive vs Negative reinforcement

Answer 10

increase behavior by adding appetitive stimulus
increasing behavior by removing aversive stimulus

Question 11

Appetitive stimulus vs aversive stimulus

Answer 11

like
dislike

Question 12

Effects of cortisol/adrenaline on learning behavior

Answer 12

Adrenaline can improve memory

Question 13

Genetically fixed traits are favored in … and Learning is favored in…

Answer 13

Highly predictable environments
Changing

Question 14

Learning models assume…

Answer 14

Learning has a genetic component and is costly
can lower reproduction in invertabrates

Question 15

Learning is good in environments that…

Answer 15

are predictable within lifespan, but change generation to generation