Summary:
- Animals may learn behaviors in a variety of ways.
- Learning is a change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience.
- Five different ways that animals learn behaviors are shown here.
- Insight learning is based on past experience and reasoning.
- Human beings use insight learning more than any other species.Learned behaviors are more flexible.
- They can be modified to suit changing conditions.
- This may make them more adaptive than innate behaviors.
- For example, drivers may have to modify how they drive when roads are wet or icy.