learning and behavior final part 4

the innate tendency for an organism to more easily learn certain types of behaviors or to associate certain types of events with each other

Some CS-US combinations are learned more readily than others (fear conditioning)

a food item that has been paired with gastrointestinal illness becomes a conditioned aversive stimulus

we are more likely to associate a relative novel item, such as an unusual liqueur, with sickness that we would a more familiar item such as beer

the sound of recorded songs by a type of bird was an effective reinforcer for training that type of bird to perch in a certain spot, but not for training them to key-peck