Animal Behaviour

Animal Behaviour

1. Classical conditioning

   • Pavlov
     • 'Dribbly dogs'
       • Learned to salivate on just hearing a bell ring, depite the lack of food.
   • 1. Unconditioned stimlus + Unconditioned response
   • 2.

2. Operant conditioning

   • Skinner
     • Skinner's box
       • Animals set tasks - turn, peck
       • Food appeared randomly
   • Positive and negative reinforcers

3. Insight learnining

   • Kohler
   • Chimps were set puzzle solving challenges
     • Bananas hanging from the ceiling and could only be reached by stacking a pile of boxes.

4. Latent learning

5. Imprinting

   • Lorenz
     • Greylag geese split into two groups.
     • Those that saw Lorenz first imprinted to him and no to their mother.
     • Had to teach the geese flying and swimming.
   • Critical period - 32-36 hours