How do animals acquire normal behaviours?
Animals can acquire normal behaviours through observational learning and can also be acquired
through instinctual learning too. The animal learns by simply observing and mimicking other
individuals, this can occur with no outside reinforcement; such as non-associative learning.
An example of this would be how chimpanzees learn to forage. A young chimpanzee learns social
behaviours and foraging from observing other members of the troop and its mother. Responses of a
stimulus may be conditioned, like if the chimpanzee used a stick to retrieve bugs or honey from the
inside of a tree they would be more likely to use this method again to forage.
Animals can acquire normal behaviours through observational learning and can also be acquired
through instinctual learning too. The animal learns by simply observing and mimicking other
individuals, this can occur with no outside reinforcement; such as non-associative learning.
An example of this would be how chimpanzees learn to forage. A young chimpanzee learns social
behaviours and foraging from observing other members of the troop and its mother. Responses of a
stimulus may be conditioned, like if the chimpanzee used a stick to retrieve bugs or honey from the
inside of a tree they would be more likely to use this method again to forage.
