Koki: The Standalone Monkey

 

One day, Amanda and her colleagues from the Center for Wildlife Conservation Amazon went to a forest in the Amazon to do some researches on monkeys over there. Amanda is known as a zoologist. In their adventures while doing the research, Amanda and the crew have found a baby monkey that has been abandoned by her mother without a care. So, Amanda and the other zoologist had decided to bring back the baby monkey back to the care center. They named the baby monkey as Koki and Amanda was appointed as a chief who will take care of the monkey. So, most of her time was spent with the baby monkey and she was supposed to take care of it until Koki reaches 3 years old. After that, they will have to release her to  the real habitat again.

Throughout that particular period, Amanda who is apparently a blond hair women became a care taker for Koki. Therefore, Koki was avoiding anyone who are not blond and run away from anyone who gets close to her. However, what was noticeable to Amanda was, Koki did not shown any sign of fear from other people who have blonde hair or anything that has similar color to Amanda's hair. So, she came up with an idea. In order to prevent Koki from getting attached to strange people with blonde hair and escapes away from the care center, Amanda taught Koki to identify the odor of her because usually animal can recognize others through their sense of smell. By that, Koki will always recognize Amanda as a mother to her, and stays close to her.

When Koki grown up to 3 years old, it was the time to take her back to the forest, so that she will live together with other monkeys. But after almost 3 years with Amanda, when the team brought Koki to the forest, she was in the deepest feeling of sadness and was isolating herself from other monkeys. So, Amanda decided to stay with Koki in the forest for 2 weeks, in order to accompany Koki in familiarizing with the new environment. Throughout the two weeks, Amanda persuaded Koki to eat along with other monkeys. At first, Koki rejected the invitation to eat with other monkeys. But eventually, with Amanda being around and persuaded by food, Koki started to be familiar with them and began to socialize with other monkeys in the jungle happily. At last, Amanda left Koki with the new friends in the new habitat. The zoologists had put a collar on Koki’s neck in order to detect its movement in that forest.

They did not just left Koki alone just like that, but they have to study how a monkey like Koki’s situation, with no parents when baby, can cope with the real habitat in the future. So, for the first three months, the officers from the care center detected that Koki was in sadness and got depressed as she was left by her mother Amanda. But then, slowly, Koki tend to forget the previous mother by socializing and by making friends with other monkeys. And the best thing for it was, she has met her life partner.

After a year, Amanda really wanted to know how far Koki’s progress in coping with the new habitat. After she met a life partner, Koki got its own baby and live happily in the jungle with other monkeys. Once Amanda met Koki, at the first sight, Koki showed slight happiness. But at the same time, she tried to avoid Amanda because she thought that Amanda will harm her. Slowly and gradually after regained her memory, especially after recognized Amanda through her odor, Koki was jumping happily and started inviting other monkeys to greet Amanda as she remembered that Amanda was her mother when she was a baby. Koki also showed appreciation by brought her baby to Amanda. Amanda was really touched with the response from Koki and by that, she realized that Koki now is living happily in the new environment.
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So, which part is related to the concepts below? From what we have learned in our class?

1. Associative bias
2. Sensory preconditioning
3. Higher order Conditioning
4. Extinction
5. Counter conditioning
6. Spontaneous recovery
7. Stimulus discrimination
8. Generalization

Minute for our 2nd & 3rd Meeting...

Date   : 26th September 2012 

Time   :10:00 p.m

Venue  : HS SQUARE

ATTENDANCE:

Agenda: 

1.0  -Assessment

• We discussed Tom's adventure and identified his classical conditioning analysis. It was, of course, a little bit confusing but we managed to made sense out of it. However, after we have already discussed it with the whole class, it makes more sense when Mdm Lihanna gave us the right answer. Apparently it's not simple as it may seem, but it will be InshaAllah if we try to dig it a lil bit deeper.

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 Date   : 29th September 2012

Time   : 2:00 p.m

Venue  : Discussion Room, Library IIUM

ATTENDANCE:

Agenda:

1.0  -Assessment

• We're currently in the library refreshing our mind regarding the concept of classical conditioning in human learning. The idea of writing and creating a story based on the (classical conditioning) concept was impossible at first. We were 'stucked' in the middle of the writing process but Alhamdulillah brother Ishaq and brother Wafiy did a great job in organizing the storyline

2.0  -Animal Training

• It has been decided that we're going to have a HAMSTER soon! Yeay! We agreed to split the budget equally and other plans for our future pet  =)

Our meeting ended around 4:25 p.m (due to the limit time given in the discussion room)

Have a productive weekend peeps! :)

.: 3rd Reflection :.

This is our third reflection from the last class, in this chapter we learned about Behaviorism and Classical Conditioning. At the beginning we have been introduced with the basic assumption of behaviorism. Then we moved to the Classical conditioning. We sure that most of you familiar with those terms, because we will play all over those words when we go through this chapter.

1. Unconditional Stimulus (UCS)
2. Unconditional Response (UCR)
3. Natural Stimulus (NS)
4. Natural Response (NR)
5.Conditional Stimulus (CS)
6. Conditional Response (CR)

Firstly, we went through the classical conditioning model discovered by Ivan Pavlov.

Based on the classical conditioning theory we can understand how people learn of involuntary response. we can sees the example of human learning on "Little Albert" cases.

Poor Little Albert. It was reported that Little Albert also responded similar fearful manner to a rabbit, dog, and a Santa Clause mask with fuzzy beard. 

We also learned about Higher- Order Conditioning which is, Conditioned stimulus - response associated sometimes piggy-back on one another. For example;

Lastly, we have been exposed with sensory preconditioning which means; one stimulus- response association builds on another, but the steps occur in different order. For example:

Reference; Human Learning, sixth Edition, Jeanne Ellis Ormrod

Admin: Minute for the First Meeting

RED VELVET GROUP MEETING FOR PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING (PSYC 1080, SECTION 1)

Date    : 19th September 2012

Time    : 9:00 p.m

Venue : HS Cafe (Dry Area)

WE ARE THE RED VELVET GROUP!

Everyone are doing their part...

Attendance:

1. Mohd Wafiy Akmal
2. Zahidah
3. Syahida 
4. Hani
5. Normah
6. Izati 

The attendance is 100% and the meeting was started with reciting Surah al-Fatihah.

Agenda: 

1.0 - Reflection

• We had gathered and refreshing (recall) our memory about what we have learned inside the previous classes. Then, we have decided what information that we need to be posted in the blog.

2.0 - Assessment

• Finished up searching for the Qur'anic verses that related to the Social Learning, Behaviorism and Cognitive theory.

The meeting ended around 10.45 pm, and before all of us disperse, the meeting was concluded by reciting Du'a Rabithah and Surah al-'Asr, led by Bro. Wafiy Akmal.







 

.:: 2nd Reflection ::.

Hi guys! I hope I am not too late for me to say hello, I Izzati, one of the members of this group. This is my turn to make a reflection what we got last class. In chapter two, we learned about the brain, most specifically about the neurons and the function of every part of neuron. The way we remembers the neurons was very interesting. Thanks to our Lecturer, Madam Lihanna for make our class full of fun. First of all lets make reviews on parts of our neurons.

Then what we were doing in our class? We put the part of neuron to one of our members (thanks to hani because volunteer for being our model ) into the part of the body, resemble with the function of neuron’s part. 

Some other parts we might put wrongly, after the activity, we made a discussion about the function of the neuron's parts.

Well, practice make perfect right ;) 

1st - Reflection on 1st Class

Day/date : Tuesday, 18th September 2012
Topic : Definition of Learning

In the first class, we had a discussion about "What can be defined as Learning?"

Basically, learning is a process that has a long-term change in behaviour, or behaviour potential, involves mental association & representation, and occurs as the result of practice or experience.

Then, "How we know that Learning has Occurred?"

Learning has occurred when it fulfills one of these characters;