Sentence examples for learned socially from inspiring English sources

For example, by introducing an artificial feeding box that could be opened by using two different techniques to groups of captive chimpanzees, it could be demonstrated that the respective foraging technique was learned socially by other group members, leading to social diffusion within groups, which, in turn, was subject to conformity (Whiten et al. 2005).

But it is not always best learned socially.

And those so influenced act on what they don't know personally but rather on what they have learned socially via the media.

If this behaviour is learned socially then a given population may disproportionately use one method, whereas if it is learned asocially one might expect use of both methods in proportion to their opportunity and profitabilities.

In other words, violence is learned socially and passed on by group members, thus sustaining the subculture of violence.

In some species, individuals preferentially learned socially from successful models (Schwab et al. 2008; Duffy et al. 2009).

This study evaluated the learning effects of using 3D-emotion system intervention program for individuals with IDD in learning socially based-emotions capability in social contexts.

Decades of experimental work, conducted in captivity as well as in the field, revealed that many animals are able to learn socially or that they at least possess the ability to use the social information provided by other individuals in the learning process (Reader and Hager 2011).

Field studies on social learning in wild primates have revealed that ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta) learn socially but only within subgroups (Kendal et al. 2010b).

The findings addressed a long-contentious question among animal experts: is animal behavior determined only by genes and individual learning, or can animals, like humans, learn socially?

"They do it so naturally, because dogs are predisposed to learn socially from us," Miklósi says.