Evolution and Behavior

• Natural selection
• Adaptation in behavior
• Fixed action patterns
• Innate behavior
• Habituation

Adaptation and Learning: Instrumental Conditioning

• The law of effect
• Reinforcement
• Shaping

Adaptation and Learning: Classical Conditioning

• Signals for food
• Territoriality and reproduction
• Fear
• Conditioning with drugs as the outcome
• Sign tracking

Other Parallels Between Signal and Response Learning

• Extinction
• Timing of the outcome
• Size of the outcome
• Preparedness