1. Animal Learning

2. Learning
Definition:
A relatively specific and enduring change in a potential behaviour brought about by past experience
-learning verses performance
-experience required
-internal processes

3. Learning Why Study Animal Learning? 1) precise control 2) start simple
3) use potent stimuli
4) model behavioural dysfunctions
5) avoid subjective data
6) interest in its own right

4. Learning Types of Questions? 1) Can it be learned?
2) What conditions encourage/hinder learning?
3) What is the underlying mechanism?

5. Delayed Choice Rats: 10-s Racoon: 25-s Dog: 5-min Choice Human Cue
1-year: 24-s
2-year: 50-s
6-year: 20-min
Choice
Location 1
Location 2
Location 3
Cue
Location 2
Hunter (1913)

6. Delay of Reinforcement
Grice – (1948)
Choice
Delay
Goal
Start
Reward or No Reward

7. Grice (1948) Results

8. Reasoning Through Insight
Kohler (1914)
Sudden Insight or
Trial and Error?

9. Forms of Learning Evidence 1) Dissociations “H.M.”
“Unconscious Sequence Learning”
2) Simultaneous Contradictory Belief
“Linda Problem”
“Visual Illusions”

10. H.M.
Back

11. Sequence learning * A B C D Back Nissen & Bullemer (1987) –
Serial Reaction Time A B C D
Experimental Group = fixed sequence of locations
D – B – C – A – C – B – D – C – B – A -
circular sequence, 10 times per block *
Control Group = random sequence of locations
Back

12. Violated Sequence
Subjects are sensitive to the presence of the sequence even when they deny knowing that there was a sequence
Back

13. Linda Problem
Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations.
Which of the following is more probable?
(1) Linda is a bank teller.
(2) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.
Back

14. Müller-Lyer Illusion

15. Forms of Learning: Classification
“Man as machine”
René Descartes
( )

16. Descartes’ Dualism Human versus Animal Involuntary Stimulus Action

17. A Modern Conception Nonassociative Explicit Implicit Conditioning
Semantic
Episodic
Skills
Classical
Instrumental