AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -a type of learning in which the organism successively tries various responses in a situation, seemingly at random, until one is successful in achieving the goal. Across successive trials, the successful response is strengthened and appears earlier and earlier.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trial and error learning: Response or behaviour is learned through trial and error; that is the learning occurs through various attempts and the elimination of incorrect responses until the correct response is achieved. Operant Conditioning: A form of learning in which the learner plays an active role.

Detailed explanation-3: -…the egg, conditioning, or by trial-and-error learning. For example, chicks might “learn” to peck before hatching as a result of the rhythmic beating of their heart, or they might have a pecking reflex and simply learn to associate a food reward with pecking at the parent’s bill.