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Types of Learning
1 Imprinting
1.1 Learning that occurs at a young age
1.2 Ex: hatching chicks follow their mother
2 Classical conditioning
2.1 learning that occurs by association of a
stimulus with a response
2.2 Ex: when you ring a bell a
dog drools for food
3 Trail and Error
3.1 learning that occurs after several attempts to solve a
problem and finally figuring out the correct solution
3.2 Ex: Finding your way out of a maze
4 Habituation
4.1 learning not to respond
to repeated stimuli
4.2 Ex: dog learns to stop barking at a mailman