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This essay will look at the work of two very famous behaviourists. It will consider the differences and similarities as well as give descriptive detail of their actual experiments and see if any contribution was provided to mankind. It will focus on the theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning which occurs through interaction with the environment. As this was done by experimenting with animals, it is also necessary to consider the rules and restrictions that are needed to be kept in mind as research ethics applies to any experiments done on any living thing.

Learning by observation is a type of learning in which an individual observes the behavior of others, sees the consequences of the behaviors, and then attempts to carry out the same behavior. Social learning is based on the standards of classical and operant conditioning and observational learning. It is a commonly shared belief that people have an instinctive ability to imitate the behavior of others. However, this ability is not unique to humans. Animals have also showed evidence of being able to mimic humans and other animals (Mazur, 2013). Chimpanzees, or Pan Troglodytes, have demonstrated social learning through many different experiments in different settings. Chimpanzees have shown the ability to observe the behavior of a model and reproduce the behavior. However, chimpanzees have also demonstrated the mental capacity of understanding when behaviors do not elicit a desired reaction and not repeating these behaviors under these circumstances. This paper will focus on chimpanzees and their ability to learn new behaviors through social learning.

Mackintosh (1997) starts his paper with a critique of radical behaviourism. In the 1960s, Pavlovian and Instrumental conditionings were main theories to explain animal and human behaviour. However, with cognitivism coming into the picture, learning theory has dramatically improved. Animal theorists started paying more attention to animal cognition, and nothing but well came from it, as researchers

The media news clip of “Speak (carefully) Dogs understand your words, new research says” describes a study that was completed overseas on dogs in relation to how they react to certain words and tone of voice from humans. The happy and more excited a human sounds while interacting with a dog will cause a positive interaction with the dog’s brain. A monotone or unexcited voice tone will not spark a positive reinforcement

2016). The observation in HVC premotor neurons of these zebra finches leads to spiking activities that are caused by song playbacks in each individual. It suggests the instructive role for HVC premotor circuit in most juvenile zebra finches, which accounts to create the spiking activity within HVC by being exposed to song patterns. For juvenile individual, it is rather to be seen the progress of learning through reflected activities in spiking pattern within HVC premotor neurons. On the contrary, adult awaken zebra finches do not seem to express similar patterns of spiking activities. It is thought to be the decrease in strength of sensory afferents from auditory projection to HVC. However, the main reason for the awake adult individuals to not express learning spiking patterns is due to inhibition activities that suppress excitation within HVM premotor neuron regions. This hypothesis is tested and confirmed as in the study itself: “To test that hypothesis, we locally infused a GABAA antagonist (gabazine) and recorded HVC premotor neurons during tutor song exposure in adults. Once local inhibition was attenuated, HVC premotor neurons exhibited tutor song–evoked patterned spiking responses similar to

A young boy sits by the window looking outside with inquisitive looks on his face. He notices that there are two birds on either side of his emerald front yard. One bird (Blue Jay) is very blue in color and expresses fidgety movement in its bearing. The second bird (Crow), however, has a dingy black look and contains a tiresome wail to its voice. The boy’s curiosity in overwhelming due to asking himself a simple, yet complicated, question: They are both birds, but have significant differences, why? This question can be addressed by the study of evolution. It is questions such as these, as to why evolution is needed in our public school system. This position is justified by looking at evolution as strictly a science and how taking

In the article A study of cerebral action currents in the dog under sound stimulation, Perkins focuses on the functions of the cerebral cortex in relation to animal behavior. Perkins argues that animals such as dogs are not as sound blind as they might generally have been perceived. He goes on to say that current conceptions of brain function is incorrect and new techniques and methods need to be implemented. He completes multiple experiments on dogs to prove his argument. The main focus of the experiment is to show that animal’s cortical activity varies between different intensity and pitch. Perkins performed his experiment on nine dogs and 78 different records were produced from numerous locations of the gyri with varying sounds. And it is

In Watson’s experiment, he and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, subjected an 11 month old child to a “loud, scary noise” whenever the child viewed a white rat (Baird 2011). The child eventually learned to associate the rat with the noise and would cry whenever presented with the rat. To those who study behaviorism, this study proves that behavior in humans can be altered through reinforcement (Baird 2011).

The purpose of the article, Mental math helps monk parakeets find their place in pecking order, was to see how monk parakeets create social rankings within their flocks based on individual, aggressive tendencies. In an experiment preformed with two independent flocks, the birds’ aggressive actions were observed over a period of twenty four days. The scientists conducting the observation watched as both flocks engaged in fights between their members. They were able to observe the different fights that individual birds had with one another and determined the winners from each. From there, they noted which birds won and which lost, watching over 1013 wins in the first group and 1360 in the second group. From this data, the scientists were able

During the 1940's and 1950's, for example, laboratory researchers in Europe demonstrated that Grey parrots could learn the kinds of symbolic and conceptual tasks that are generally considered as pre- or co-requisites for complex cognitive and communicative skills...Another sign of intelligence, thought to be absent in most non-human animals, is the ability to engage in complex, meaningful communication; only recently has the general perception of parrots as mindless mimics been shown to be

Introduction: Two principles that define the biological level of analysis are that patterns of behavior can be inherited and that animal research may inform our understanding of human behavior.

Third, Singer states that, “apes, monkeys, dogs, cats, rats, and other animals are more aware of what is happening to them, more self‐directing, and at least as sensitive to pain as a human infant.”(Page 2, Tools for Research) Singer is quick to assign cognitive motives to observed

He found that responses of allopatric birds were determined by syllabic cues and not by the temporal pattern of the song (Baker 1991). As these aberrant chickadee vocalizations may contain characteristics of both parental song types (Enstrom and Bollinger 2009), we would expect some type of response from, for example, a BCCH if an aberrant vocalization contained BCCH-like elements (e.g. slower song frequency, lower pitch interval, lower number of notes per song, etc.). It is possible that response from parental species to these aberrant vocalizations also varies based on the structure of the song being presented. The majority of the aberrant song types recorded in Illinois contain introductory phrases that are similar to typical BCCH song. Perhaps most notably, the Greenville dialect starts with a two-note phrase that is similar in frequency to a typical BCCH song (Enstrom and Bollinger 2009). However, the phrase duration is shorter and more similar to a typical CACH song. With aberrant vocalizations containing elements of both parental song types, a parental bird could be responding to a particular phrase or other element within the song which elicits a response similar to a true conspecific song. Further investigation would be necessary to compare responses from partial songs or from playbacks that have been manipulated to express different song characteristics.

Q1 Introduction: When an organism lives in an unknown enviroment, the enviroment changes which also tends to affect the organism itself. Some of these changes are known as rewards or also refferred to reinforcers. When a particular behaviour is practised a reinforcement will apply as a reward, which will create a likelyhood of the same behaviour to be practised by the organism. The most popular reinforcement for an organism relates to biological processes which is food, because food is the basic survival of the organism because when an organism is hungry, food is a reinforcement. Food has been an aquired an evoulutionary development of organisms and when food is used as a reinforcement, strengthens the behaviour means the organism is, Ferster and Skinner (1957) describes it as “shapes up”(pp744). Shaping up organisms is a useful tool in this area so that the organism can provide the same performance in many different enivroments and includes the differentiations of new forms of response from reinforcements, this is then reffered to buliding skill. The overall concept was then taken to context with a well skilled chicken that has been shaped up in the past, and was observed with three different schedules of reinforcements, one with Fixed Intervals (FI), Variable-Ratios (VR), and Differential Reinforcements of Lower Rates (DRL). The scientific purpose of this experiment is to relate the nonhuman behaviour such as the chicken with a human behaviours.

On April 16th, Haskell observes the songs of the birds in the forest. “The dry buzz unleashes a confusion of songs from all directions, a jumble of tempos and timbres.” (Haskell, pg 81) Haskell describes how birds use these beautiful songs to mate. Male birds, he explains, take years to perfect this song. The songs are used to help attract female birds for mating. In the larger scale, these songs are a daily normal in the morning. Most humans wake up on a daily bases hearing birds sing their song, but they never bother to pay attention to it. However, when taking a closer look, we understand the purpose for these songs, and thes songs become even more beautiful and unique.