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The following group of answer choices may or may not be used multiple times: (A) Social Facilitation; (B) Stimlus Enhancement; (C) Local Enhancement; (D) Public Information.
1. Bird A opens a milk bottle and leaves. The open milk bottle draws the attention of Bird B, who now begins opening milk bottles herself. This is an example of _______________________.
2. The squirrel in my backyard is spending much of its time watching out for my cats. Additional squirrels arrive, and the 1st squirrel, feeling more comfortable, begins foraging. As a consequence, he learns that my strawberries are TASTY. This is an example of _____________________.
3. A raccoon notices his friends feeding at a dumpster, and joins them. He discovers pizza crusts and acquires a taste for them. This is an example of _____________________.
Ans .(1) Bird A opens a milk bottle and leaves. The open milk bottle draws the attention of bird B , who now begins opening milk bottle herself. This is an example of Local Enhancement.
Ans .(2) The squirrel in my backyard is spending much of its time watching out for my cats. Additional squirrels arrive, and the 1st squirrel feeling more comfortable, begins foraging. As a consequence, he learns that my strawberries are TASTY. This is an example of Social Facilitation.
Ans .(3) A raccoon notices his friends feeding at a dumpster, and joins them. He discovers pizza crusts and acquires a taste for them. This is an example of Local Enhancement.
Local enhancement :- A form of social learning in which one or more individuals engaging in some behavior with an object in a particular location draw the attention of another to that location, which facilitates the acquisition of similar behavior by that observer.
Social Enhancement :- It is defined as improvement in individual performance when working with other people rather than alone.