(a) Lab rats and Norway rats learn how to navigate b) Scrub jays remember where

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(a) Lab rats and Norway rats learn how to navigate b) Scrub jays remember where they've stored food FIGURE 51.10 Different Species Are Adept at Different Types of Learning There is often a strong correlation between the type of learning occurs in a particular species and the problems that the species must solve to survive and reproduce. QUESTION Domestic dogs have been trained by people for thousands of years. Domestic adept at learning via classical conditioning. that dogs are What is the relationship between these observations?

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There exists a strong positive correlation between these two events. The theory of classical conditioning explains that a new behavior can be learnt via the process of association between two stimuli. Domestic dogs due to their affinity with humans, have been subjected to training for several thousand years. In turn, this continued association with humans and getting trained by them has made these dogs more amenable to understand the cues of training and learning new behavior, which is the basis of classical conditioning. That is, domestic dogs have gotten conditioned to get trained by humans.

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