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Biology/ Cognition/ Learning
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biological Learning | An organism’s ability to learn is limited by biological constraints |
| Preparedness | It is easier to teach a dog to fetch than to tap dance, because fetching is more instinctive |
| Evolutionary perspective | we learn what helps us survive |
| Taste aversion (John Garcia): | rats avoided what made them sick |
| Taste Aversion findings in the study | even if sickened as late as several hours after tasting a particular flavor, rats thereafter avoided that flavor |
| preparedness | Biology predisposes us to know that tastes cause illness and to avoid them |
| Instinctive Drift | the tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns |
| Predictability & learning | The more predictable the association, the stronger the conditioned response. |
| Latent learning: | learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it |
| Latent learning example | You knew how to get to school before you ever had to drive it by yourself |
| Insight | abrupt solution to a problem. Not based on strategy |
| Intrinsic Motivation | The desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake. / Promising a reward for something that is already intrinsically motivated may decrease the desire to do it |
| Extrinsic Motivation | The desire to perform a behavior to receive rewards or avoid punishment |
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