Tag
Animal Cognition
Entries tagged animal cognition.
2 entries
Thought experiment
Insight Learning
Wolfgang Köhler's chimpanzees solved problems by a sudden reorganization of the whole situation, not by gradual trial and error, and that challenged the behaviorist account of how learning works.
9 min
Thought experimentLearned Helplessness
Repeated exposure to a shock a dog cannot escape teaches it, wrongly, that nothing it does will change what happens, even later when escape is easy.
9 min