Re: Bag of Tricks: Choosing actions via the matching law

baylor wrote:

> FTaste learns in one trial because you don't want to eat a poison plant
> 3 times to learn the plant was poisonous (as opposed to some other
> reason such as time of day, where you ate it, cleanliness of fork,
> etc.). In auditory and visual (not sure if this is one learning system
> or two), you don't want to take too long to learn that the sound of
> rustling grass behind you might mean there's a fox or eagle or
> something ready to eat you
>

Also animals tend to have a default 'hardwired' (genetic based reflex??)
response
-- rabbits get twitchy from sounds they never heard before or thats too
loud...

Cats (much to the dismay of cat-lovers) tend to freeze in headlights

Fight-Flight response to unusual situations etc....