Chapter 2: Learning and Adaptation
Chapter Outline
Evolution and Behavior
- Natural selection
- Adaptation in behavior
- Fixed action patterns
- Innate behavior
Adaptation in Instrumental Conditioning
- The law of effect
- Reinforcement
- Shaping
Adaptation in Classical Conditioning
- Signals for food
- Territoriality and reproduction
- Fear
- Conditioning with drugs as S*s
- Sign tracking
Other Parallels between Signal and Response Learning
- Extinction
- Timing of S*
- Size of S*
- Preparedness
