Learning Record Form For Research ONLY Name: Neeracha Lokunpai (Medkao)

The purpose of this form is to document your learning as you are researching.
What you should see is that learning is a process. Your goal should be to update this form on a daily basis as you work
and find out additional information:

Include the information you have learned, with the main ideas summarized in your own words. If you cant summarize it in your
own words, you havent learned it.

Include the dates so that you can monitor your learning process.

As you learn more, you should always have more questions. We should see continuous questions and answers as you seek to
deepen your knowledge.

Knowledge Section: This section will be where you record what you know, as well as what you learn. At the end it should
give us a picture of the learning that took place during this project.

Things you know and things you learned: This section will be the first section you will fill out. Here you will list, summarized in
your own words, every important idea that you know so far. Later, as you learn more, you should add to this list. Choose a
specific color for all the things that you know. Choose a different color for all the things that you learn. This should be
summarized in your own words.

Question Sections: Questions drive learning. Asking effective questions is the key to real learning. You should keep a
careful record of all questions that come to your mind. If the teacher comes to ask what you are doing, you should be able
to show them the question that is driving your learning.

Things you know that you dont know: These should be questions that come from you. Having focused questions is an
important part of doing efficient research. If the teacher comes to ask you what you are doing, you should be able to show them
the question you are focused on. As you learn new information, add it to the things you know section in a different color.
 Things you didnt know that you dont know: As you continue to research and learn, you will come across words or ideas that
you have never heard of before. This is a very valuable chance to learn. It will also lead you to have questions such as: what does
this word mean? Who made this theory? How does this relate to this? These questions will add even more opportunities for you to
learn. As you learn the answers to these questions, add them to the things you learned list in a third different color.

Question Section: Things you know that you dont know Question Section: Things you didnt know that you dont
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March, 31, 2017 April, 17, 2017

What are the others learning methods of human and animal? What is the meaning of the word Plateau?
April, 10, 2017 How does the learning curve and forgetting curve look like?
What types of food does hamster eat?
How does hamster learn? What factors effect learning method of hamster?
How much should we feed the hamster?
When should we feed a hamster? Any specific time of the day?
What are the types of hamster? How are they differ?
April, 17, 2017
How memory occur?

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March, 31, 2017 [Things you know]
Human can learn by physical (doing thing practically), visual (use picture, image, and what we see) and aural (learn from spoken information).
Animal learn from experience (learn through trials and mistakes), environment (social and friend), and learn from being hunted (which is to escaping from predators).
Human learning method include more than those three things. Apart from that, there are also solitary (study by yourself), social (to help as a group), logical (use reasoning
and concept to explain something), verbal (used both speaking and writing as a word-based learning).
Animal learning types are mostly depending on environment. Firstly, habituation is decreasing in frequency of behaviour that is respond non-beneficial to themselves, while
sensitisation is the increase in frequency of behaviour that is beneficial to the animal. Thirdly, Classical conditioning is when animal learn to respond the same way to more
than one stimuli which is happened when the behaviour are repeatedly being expose to stimuli. Next, observational learning is to observed the behaviour of another
individual and then design to copy or avoid it. Fifth, play also help to developed the physical skills and fitness of individual. Sixth, insight learning is the method that
focussed on the solution to solve problem that doesnt involved trial but required intelligence.
April, 10, 2017
Hamsters are omnivore they eat both vegetable and meat. The primary diet includes proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and
water. There are the type of hamster who loves to eat insect, frogs, lizards, and other small animals, while another type eats seeds,
grain and grasses.
It is good to fed them a small amount of fruit to keep them healthy. No acid, stale, sticky food should be given since they can be
harmful and cause diarrheas.
Hamsters like to keep their food in the pouch or under bedding page to eat later.
April, 17, 2017
Plateau is a state of little or no change following a period of activity or progress. In a learning curve, its mean the proficiency increasing in performance of one person.

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March, 31, 2017
http://www.edudemic.com/styles-of-learning/
http://www.ck12.org/biology/Learned-Behavior-of-Animals/lesson/Learned-Behavior-in-Animals-Advanced-BIO-ADV/
April, 10, 2017
http://www.livescience.com/27169-hamsters.html
http://thehamsterhouse.com/hamster-food/what-do-hamsters-eat/
April, 17, 2017
Classrooms powerpoint

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April, 18, 2017 April, 20, 2017
What brand of hamsters food should we give to the hamster? How do animal determine between important and not important information?
What are the control variables? April, 21, 2017
What are the research question for the experiment? What is associative learning? What are the elements in associative learning?
What vegetable is for the hamster?
April, 20, 2017
Why learning is costly for animal? What is the requirement in learning?
How long does long term and short term memory last before forgetting?
Things you know and things you learned.

April, 17, 2017

Learning curve is a graphical represent the relationship between number of trial and the likelihood that it will perform the task correctly. At first it takes a lot of time to
learn thing. After learn it for a while, we will able be able to get the thing faster and easier. Once it reach the plateau that is when we are 100% understand the content.
Forgetting curve show the time and likelihood of forgetting. For the first period your memory will be 100% with you. Only small amount of memory were gone. Then, if
we stop revising it, we will accelerately forget it.
Memory started from your sense of organs; smell, hear, see, touch, and taste. The synapses are the activator that transferring the sensation into electrical memory that
stimulate to build proteins. The protein is like a machine that store memories in short term. To make a long term memory, more protein and synaptic connection is needed.
April, 18, 2017
The hamster food should be Oxbow brand since it gives the nutrient that the hamster needed.
The control variables are water, daily exercise, sleep hours
The research question is Which hamsters will be able to run through a maze faster, with one hamster fed raw vegetables and the other a regular hamster diet? The
control group is the one that fed with normal food pellet. And the experimental group is fed by the raw vegetable.
Hamster will eat raw carrot, corn, sunflower seeds, grains, and peas. *All have to be fresh.
April, 20, 2017
Learning is costly because it require time, space in the brain, and chemical reactions. The short term memory will last for 15-30 seconds before forgetting, while the long
term memory will lasted for 1second-Lifetime. There are two types of information that animal learn. The first one is the inf that important now, but not later. The second
one is inf that is important for the whole life. Selective attention is what used to decide what is important and what wa can forget.
April, 21, 2017
Associative learning states that ideas and experiences reinforce each other and can be mentally linked to one another.
1. Stimulus is an event or thing that creates a response. Ex. The stimuli that cause the cat to be aggressive and hissing.
2. Habituation is the long loss of response to a stimulus when the stimulus is given repeatedly. Ex. Dog will run away and hide when he see human. If this occur over time,
the dog will stop to scare human.
3. Sensation is an increase in response to a stimuli due to experience. Ex. Dog is being chase and tries to killed by a big dog. If its survive, he will have fearful response
when seeing a big dog.
4. Conditioning is the building association between two events. Ex. Bird forages for bug under a rock and find a bug. When the bird repeat this behaviour and still find a
bug. Then bird can assume that if they repeat behaviour again, they will find a bug.
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April, 21, 2017
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April, 24, 2017
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April, 24, 2017 April, 24, 2017
Wha is the classical conditioning history? What are the types of conditioning? How are they differ?
What are the meaning and example of unconditioned stimulus(UCS), unconditioned Who is Pavlov?
response(UCR), conditioned stimulus(CS), conditioned response(CR)?
April, 25, 2017
What topic of study related to our research question?
How does our research important?
April, 27, 2017
What are the four methods of training with classical conditioning?
Can people who scare of height treated by desensitisation?
What is the different between desensitisation and graded exposure?
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April, 24, 2017
There are 2 major types of conditioning. The classical or respondent conditioning is a signal that placed before a reflex. The operant or instrumental conditioning is a
reinforcing or punishing stimulus that give after behaviour. Classical is involuntary and operant is voluntary behaviour.
Classical conditioning started by Russian psychologist called Ivan Pavlov. He studies about dog behaviour when giving a stimuli of the foods smell. The dog will always
saliva because it mean they will likely to get fed soon. In the experiment, the foods smell and the bell ringing was giving to a dog at the same time which cause the dog to
salivate. Overtime, the dog would salivate when the bell was run even though the food is not presented. This is known as classical conditioning.
Unconditioned stimulus(UCS) is the stimulus that has response and hasnt been taught. Ex. Food.
Unconditioned response(UCR) is the natural response to stimulus and doesnt require learning. Ex. The dog salivate.
Conditioned stimulus(CS) is a neutral stimulus that didnt initially have a response, but is combine with UCS and been taught association to create a response. Ex. Bell
ring.
Conditioned response(CR) is a combination of CS and UCS; after time, the animal will learn to response to just the CS.
April, 25, 2017
The topic related of study is the behaviour of mammals and the classical conditioning which is the association between food and the maze or us(the feeder).
It helps us to determine whether a hamster fed with normal food can learn faster than the hamsters fed the special diet that we will give them.
April, 27, 2017
1. Flooding is a training method that expose the animal to the stimulus for a prolong time until the animal realised that there are no harm and shouldnt fear it in the future.
This is not the recommended method. However, stopping the stimulus before the flooding is completed will cause the animal to be more fearful. And also, the
experimenter must understand the body language of that particular animal or else it will be false flooding.
2. Desensitisation is a behaviour technique use to treat fear, anxiety disorder and phobias. Overtime, animals are exposed to a stimulus until they no longer reach to the
stimulus. There are three step which are discover the thing that cause fear. After that exposed the animal to that thing where animal can see it and still fine (Repeat
exposure). Lastly, change the variable and repeat the exposure. Height phobia could be treat.
3. Graded exposure is a training method that exposes an animal to stimulus in steps until stimulus no longer cause fear. Starting by exposed animal to the stimulus at the
furthest distance. Once the animal become comfortable at that distance, go to next step. Then repeat until animal doesnt show fear.
Graded exposure are alike to desensitisation but they animal started to be place in the distance where they first show fear.
4. Counterconditioning is a training method that uses positive stimulus to change the emotional state of animals while they are exposed to a feared stimulus. Ex. the dog
were placed with another scary dog and show fear. Then its rewarded with food. Overtime, the dog will associate scary dog with the feeling they get from food.
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April, 28, 2017 April, 28, 2017
What are the materials needed for the hamster to live? What are the other kind of maze?
What materials are needed to make a maze? How are we going to make it? What is ad lib food?
April, 29, 2017 What are the experiment of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior
What are the conditioning (classical/operant) in our experiment? Processes.? What are the result?
What are the UCS,UCR,CS,CR in the experiment? April, 29, 2017
What are the new research question for the experiment? What does the Acta Physiologica Hungarica on the journey The effect of omega-3
on cognition in hypothyroid adult male rats studied about?
What does the National Centre for Biotechnology Information under the headline
Influence of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Status on the Way Rats Adapt to Chronic
Restraint Stress studied about?
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April, 28, 2017

Hamster will need a large and escape-proof cage that is easy to clean since we have to clean it weekly. Second thing is the fibre-base bedding. Third is the food dished.
Try to find the shallow and heavy one so that it dont get chewed up. Lastly, a toy for hamster to played and exercised with.
There are many kind of maze, but the one that weve study today called The radial arm maze which has a centre area and eight spokes radiating out from the core.
Ad libitum mean getting the food as much as desire. The word ad libitum mean at pleasure or at ones pleasure.
The experiment tested on a rats ability to run a maze in different condition which include free choice, rebait, and odor. The maze they use was the radial arm maze, which
has a centre platform with eight arm. The result showed that rat tend to not chosen the same arm and usually respond clockwise to the arm it just chosen.
April, 29, 2017
The food that will be provided for the hamster at each end of the maze act as an unconditioned stimulus, as the hamster realised there is food, they will respond without
being taught initially. However, the maze is a neutral stimulus that the hamster might take awhile to get use to it, as so the maze is a conditioned stimulus. When the food,
an unconditioned stimulus, combined with the eight-pathways maze, a conditioned stimulus, it will urge a response of a running hamster.
The Acta Physiologica Hungarica studied the effect of omega-3 on cognition in hypothyroid adult male rats. Each group will get a different food. The result shows that the
control group noticed the least error.
The National Centre for Biotechnology Information forces on the influence of omega-3 fatty acid status on the way rats adapt to chronic restraint stress. The result also
comes out that the control group spent the least time in the open arm maze.
After reading the two literature review, The group have design to change the research question to Which hamsters will be able to run through a maze faster, with one
hamster fed a high omega3 food and the other a normal hamster diet? Because of the benefit of Omega3, we want to prove what we have learned from those paper.
April, 28, 2017
https://www.thespruce.com/supplies-needed-for-a-pet-hamster-1238928
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6984
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2ac2/5df2b999fddadf0e78be761a9756b427134a.pdf
April, 29, 2017
https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/learning-7/classical-conditioning-46/applications-of-classical-conditioning-to-human-
behavior-194-12729/\
http://akademiai.com/doi/pdf/10.1556/APhysiol.101.2014.3.11
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3408452/
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May, 1, 2017 May, 1, 2017
What are the balanced diet for hamster? Is it like human? How does Omega 3 effect the masters brain?
What are the role of Omega 3? What food provided Omega 3 May, 9, 2017
May, 8, 2017 Who is John B. Watson? What experiment he did?
What are the cons of The National Centre for Biotechnology experiment? What are May, 18, 2017
the good thing? Who is Edward Thorndyke? How did he important?
May, 9, 2017
What is generalisation conducted by Watson?
What are the materials and procedure for making a maze?
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May, 1, 2017
Hamsters like to eat seed, grains, nut, fruits and vegetable. The primary balanced diet for hamsters include Proteins used for growth and tissue repair, Carbohydrates and
Fats as an energy and warmth provider, Vitamins to keep hamster in a good health, Minerals for building up strong bones, and water, the basis need for body to function.
Omega 3 plays an important role for cell membranes and is necessary for the helping to improve the brain function and behaviour. Foods that are high in Omega 3 include
egg, milk, hypos.
Hamsters are less likely to get any brain diseases or behaviour disorder if they consume the fair amount of Omega 3.
May, 8, 2017
The National Centre for Biotechnology experiment requires a lot of time to do the experiment since it is testing on the first generation of male rats that born from a female
that has to eat an assigned food for two weeks before mating. And those male offspring will be used in the experiment for at least six months. To test the behaviour of the
rats, it requires a motor which is the object that couldnt find in the daily life.
The good point about this experiment is that there were the different experimental group which is omega three enrich and omega three deficient which help to determine
the effect of having and not having omega 3.
May, 9, 2017
Watson is an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviour. He and his colleague, Rosalin Rayner, conducted an influential study of
generalisation? Generalisation is animals ability to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli.
Both conduct an experiment called Little Albert Experiment by conditioned the fear of human. 11months old boy call little Albert was exposed to a little white
mouse(Neutral Stimulus) and doesn't show fear. Then he was exposed to a white mouse and a loud sound (UC) which makes hime cried out (UCR). Overtime, little Albert
becomes frightened of a white mouse without the loud noise. (UCR becomes CR). After that, he fear to a number of furry objects.
To make an eight arm maze, the main material is the softwood board. Other materials are hot glue, future board, sand paper, long ruler, ink marker, and scissor. The first
step is to cut a wood into a specific sizes; (16x50cm),(8x20xm),(8x40cm),(24x10cm). Then use a sand paper to polish the edge so the hamster dont get hurt from the
sharp wood. Then use a hot glue to connected the wood together to an L shape (8pieces). After that line up each L shape into an eight arms maze and connected side by
side. Lastly cut the future board into octagon (Make sure it fit the middle part of the maze). And glue it together (the floor and the arms). Make sure the each step is went
through properly and the glue is dry completely before the experiment day.
May, 1, 2017
http://hamsterific.com/hamster-illness-and-injury-guide/hamster-diet-and-nutrition/
http://www.umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/omega3-fatty-acids
http://www.theresearchpedia.com/health/omega3/benefits-of-omega-3-for-learning-and-memory
http://learningfundamentals.com.au/blog/brain-booster-in-a-capsule-omega-3/
May, 9, 2017
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3408452/
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May, 10, 2017 May, 10, 2017
How do we notice the fear of hamster? Why does the hamster love to stay in the house or under the exercise wheel?
May, 18, 2017
What are the differences between classical and operant conditioning
What are the goals of operant conditioning. What are they called?
May, 22, 2017
Why does the control group hamster doesnt eat the food in the maze?

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May, 10, 2017

The hamster will bite if theyre scare or being awakened during their sleeping time
Hamster is nocturnal so they will be alert during the night time. They dont show much movement while the light is on so hamster try to be isolated during the day.
May, 18, 2017
Classical conditioning used to change emotional state by forming an association between two things. Operant conditioning used to increased or decreased a behaviour by
forming and association between behaviour and consequence.
There are two goals for operant conditioning. Reinforcement is to encourage the behaviour to be repeated while punishment" is to discourage the behaviour from
happening. There are also 2 types of consequences; the positive and negative. The positive referred to nothing good and bad presented. The negative is when something
good or bad taken away.
Edward Thorndike studied how learning takes place when response of animal is reinforced. He used a cat as an experimenter. The cat was placed in the puzzle box that
was shut by a simple latch. Then a piece of salmon was placed near to the box which encourage the cat to find a way getting out from the box. At first the cat try to
extending their paws but couldnt reach it. The cat then try other ways and soon able to open the box.They immediately get the fish as a reward.
This experiment is repeated again and again with the same cat. It gone through the same response before it was able to open the box. Eventually, the cat can quickly open
the door and this is how it learn to solve a puzzle box.
May, 22, 2017
The hamster doesnt eat the food might be because he doesnt like that food. Try to change to other food or observe their behaviour and see what does the hamster like.
Then use that food to do an experiment. The food is like the motivator that motivate the hamster to run into the maze and eat the food. The hamster have to learn to
remember which arm it already go in. And only go in the arm that has a food. The food is changed from carrot to broccoli.
May, 10, 2017
https://hubpages.com/animals/How-to-Get-Over-Your-Fear-of-Hamsters
http://www.livescience.com/27169-hamsters.html
http://www.hammysworld.com/index.php?p=nocturnal
May, 18, 2017
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May, 24, 2017
How do we collect the data for the experiment?
What are the result of each hamster in each trial?
What happened when the food has changed to broccoli?
What are the result of the experiment?

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May, 24, 2017
The data table will be separated into six rolls; the trial(1,2,3,4), hamster (experiment/control group), the time (5mins), the food was eaten, the error(repeated route,
omitted), and the explanation. We will watch our video record and check each of them straitly.
The first trial is on Friday 19, 5 at 13.00pm; The Omega3 treated hamster run into 6 arms, omitted 2 arms, and 16 repeat route. The hamster ran over 6 consecutive arms
of the maze continually before they repeated the route randomly. The normal diet hamster run into 6 arms, omitted 2 arms, and 4 repeat route. The hamster randomly ran
around the maze. And stay a long time in each arm.
The second trial is on Friday 19, 5 at 15.30pm; The Omega3 treated hamster run into 7 arms, omitted 1 arms, and 5 repeat route. Hamster ran properly for 5 arms but then
randomly after that. At last minutes it come back to walking 2 more maze properly. The normal diet hamster run into 6 arms, omitted 2 arms, and 11 repeat route. The
hamster randomly ran around the maze.
The third trial is on Monday 22, 5 at 15.30pm; The Omega3 treated hamster run into 8 arms, omitted 0 arms, and 0 repeat route. This hamster has finished walking
through all the arms without making a single error. After finishing, the hamster ran randomly around the maze. The normal diet hamster run into 6 arms, omitted 2 arms,
and 6 repeat route. The hamster ran over 6 consecutive arms of the maze continually before they repeated the route randomly and try to come out of the maze.
The fourth trial is on Tuesday 23, 5 at 13.00pm; The Omega3 treated hamster run into 8 arms, omitted 0 arms, and 0 repeat route. This hamster has finished walking
through all the arms without making a single error. The normal diet hamster run into 6 arms, omitted 2 arms, and 6 repeat route. The hamster randomly ran into the maze.
And doesnt go into every arm.
There is an error trial where we give the broccoli is each arms. The Omega enriches group first entered the maze and didn't eat the broccoli at all. Then we tried with the
regular diet hamster and also get the same result where hamster doesnt eat the broccoli. This could be concluded that neither hamster like broccoli.
In conclusion, there are differences between hamsters of experimental and control group. On average between the data table above, the experimental hamster shows
greater performance in running a maze in terms of number of errors made(route repeated), arms omitted, and development. For errors made, the experimental group
hamster had less net number of errors of 21 errors while control group has 27 errors. In terms of number of arms omitted, the experimental hamster has only omitted 3
arms in total while the control hamster omitted 8 arms. Most importantly, the experimental hamster shows development in learning because numbers of mistakes made
each time it was tested reduces, showing that the hamster has learnt from their mistake. Control hamster, on the other hand, does not show any pattern of development,
indicating that the hamster has learnt less or not at all from mistakes.
May, 24, 2017
Experiment Part