exam 4 ch 13 review

Critical Period

•A period in development of an individual when they are more likely to learn a particular behavior

Example of Critical Period

•Example: bonding between mother and infant shortly following birth

Imprinting

the tendency of some animals to follow the first moving object seen after birth, which may not always be their mother

Instinctive drift

•the tendency of an animal to revert to fixed action patterns

Autoshaping

•innate tendency to engage in a behavior associated with food without receiving reinforcement

Unprepared

learning proceeds steadily and slowly

No prior knowledge, not genetically prepared

Contraprepared

•learning proceeds slowly and irregularly

•Raccoon and the coin