How dogs Learn Flashcards
Definition: Adaptation
Adjustment that an organism makes to the conditions of it’s environment
Definition: Allelomimetic
Innate tendency to follow the actions of others and do the same thing.
Definition: Baseline
Critical measurement from which a researcher can calculate changes in the rate or frequency of a particular behaviour.
Classical Conditioning
Type of learning in which a neutral stimuli is repeatedly paired with an uncondition response, animals learn what predicts what.
Definition: Conditioning
to modify the behaviour of a subject.
Definition: Conditions
Circumstances controlled by researchers in a lab.
Definition: Conditioned Reflex
Combination of Conditioned stimulus and conditioned response
CR
Conditioned Response, a learned response that results from pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus.
CS
Conditioned stimulus, stimulus that causes a conditioned response.
Definition: Consequence
Event that follows a behaviour
Definition: Contingency
Dependence of one event upon another.
Dependent Variable
What a researcher is interested in or trying to explain. Usually refers to animals response or change in behaviour. (ie sit)
Definition: Explanatory Fiction
False intervening variable introduced to explain a casual relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable.
Definition: Extinction
Process by which a particular behaviour decreases or disappears.
Habituation
Gradual reduction of a response as a result of repeated stimulation.
Definition: Hyperkinetic
Defines an overly active animal
What is Imprinting?
Process by which a young animal bonds with another animal, usually of the same species.
Independent Variable
Something a researcher adds into an experiment to see the effect it has on the dependent variable (ie food)
Intervening Variable
Factor that cannot be seen but has an effect on the dependent variable (ie hunger)
Definition: Kinesis
Involuntary change or general activity level in response to external stimuli, type of tropism.
Latent Learning
Learning that occurs in the absence of reinforcement and remains hidden until it is required.
What does the law of effect state?
Behaviours that are followed by pleasant events are more likely to be repeated, behaviours that are followed by unpleasant events are less likely to be repeated.
What is a learning Set?
Method of solving problems acquired through experience.
Definition: Local Enhancement
Tendency of an animal to be attracted to a particular environmental stimuli or situation after watching the behaviour of other animals in a similar situation.
