Week 6 Post 1

Animal Behavior: Learning

• Social learning:
• The phenomenon of learning by observing others
• Gives the same results with less time and energy than individual learning
• Combination of individual and social learning can also be used
• Local enhancement:
• Seeing others investigating makes you want to investigate
• Stimulus enhancement:
• The aftermath of an investigation results in a stimulus
• Social learning is necessary if an individual is not as good as the others
• Social behaviors can also be wrong at times