​Describe the Ecosystemic Collapse of Easter Island After Settlement by Seafaring

question 58

Essay

​Describe the ecosystemic collapse of Easter Island after settlement by seafaring Polynesians about 800 years ago.

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Definitions:

Shaping

A method in behaviorism used to train a new behavior by successively reinforcing behaviors that approximate the desired behavior.

Extinction

The reduction and eventual disappearance of a learned response, typically when the stimulus originally eliciting the response no longer occurs.

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, a consequence applied that strengthens an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior or associations that are learned, becoming apparent only when there is an incentive to demonstrate it.