Social Learning

Social Learning

1. functional compromise to problems associated with both species typical behaviour andindividual learning

   • fast trasmission
     • learning opportunities = information exchange
       • some developmental process that depend on socially mediated learning
         • locale specific behaviours

2. Local enhancement

   • attention drawn to some aspect of the environment by an action undertaken there
     • attentional response to observation that may not have otherwise been seen

3. social facilitation

   • presense of model thought to instigate learning on part of the learner
     • increased group size assoc with increased foraging rates per individual
       • reduced fear, lower vigilance, increased time and energy to foraging, social facilitation through high motivation or a reduction on fear

4. imitation

   • learn as a direct result of observation about responses actions patterns of behaviour that a particular outcome has a benefit
     • most difficult form of social learning
       • must be a new behaviour learned from others
         • new manipulation
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