Exam 5: Learning and Cognition

Dawson and Foss (1965) taught budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) one of three techniques for opening a food dish: using their feet, pecking with their bills, or pulling with their bills. Other budgies watched a particular demonstrator open a dish. When presented with a similar dish, the observer budgie

Male blue gouramis (Trichogaster trichopterus) that had been conditioned to associate a light with the imminent appearance of a rival