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I. Inborn acts are unlearned:
--Sneezing, coughing, yawning are three of them.
--You don't have to think about things like heart beats and digestion.
II. Inborn acts in animals:
--Birds don't have to learn to build nests.
--Some scientists call complicated, unlearned behavior, such as nest building an instinct.
III. Inside the Body ("Message" Relays)
--Hydras have thousands of tiny poisonous darts in their arm.
--A stimulus is a response like a flash of light, something hot or cold or, perhaps, a sound.
--The jellyfish is the closest relative of the hydra.
IV. The Nervous System.
--Your nervous system has nerves that connect with the brain.
--There are nerve cells all over your body.
--The Sensory Nerve cell carries the impulse to the connecting nerve cell which passes it to the motor nerve cell.
--All nerve cells are called neurons.
V. Teaching an animal
--A puppy is born with reflexes, for instance, scratching.
VI. A learned act.
--If you wanted to teach your dog to come when you called it, you call it Spot, its name, when you feed it.
VII. One explanation of Learning.
--Learning to respond to a stimulus is called conditioning.
--An animal can learn to respond to more than one stimulus.
--Conditioning is sometimes called S-R bonding.
VIII. You learn a "new" behavior.
--Things like getting dressed is called an Automatic Act.
--Nobody really knows how you remember how to spell words.
IX. Forming a habit.
--To learn a habit, you got to practice it and practice it.
--Another way of saying this is: First you have a goal, second you have an insight and third, you have to practice.
X. An experiment with Sultan.
--A couple of bananas were set on a stool out of the reach of a chimpanzee, which was in a cage. In the cage was a stick and Sultan got the stick and the bananas.
XI. Can you trust your senses?
--Not always. Scientists use instruments to observe what they see!
XII. Developing good studying habits.
--To develop good studying habits, you should study every day. Study in a quiet place and have the proper tools.
XIII. Changing the Environment Through Learning.
--A plant's habitat is its surroundings, like a cactus' habitat is the desert.**
**outline written in 5th grade, 10-1-71
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posting past writtings is genius i should have kept up with mine,but the basement flooded in the house i grew up in when i was in high school, lots of memories ruined
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Posted by necronomincon
on 2008-03-09 05:33:16
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