Learning

After reading about the affects of learning I was very surprised on how people pick up on things that aren't specifically taught to them.  Such as the example of pointing at an empty water glass and having the waiter automatically know that you are thirsty and are in need a refill.  Another example that I thought was very interesting was the one that had to do with associating people to activity.  When a little girl associated getting picked up in a red car to ice cream, or her uncle with basketball.  Learning is the essence of the nurture side on the nature-nurture debate that surrounds human behavior.  Another example of a study that deals with learning is Pavlov's Accidental Discovery.  This study deals with generalization and discrimination.  For this experiment meat is placed infant if a dog with another object and the amount of salvation is collected.  This is very interesting because when the dimension of the object changed the dog didn't produce any salvation.  He associated the size of the first circle with the meat, just like the little girl associated the red car with ice cream.