Psychology 3221F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Cave Painting, Animal
17 Feb 2018
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Why study animal behavior: animals as models of human behavior and nervous system, psychologists study them because there are things we want to know about humans that we cant discover by studying humans directly (unethical, e. g. Probably not, but maybe they become equipped with a learning system that they can respond to the environment. Topics in animal behavior: food selection how do animals know what to eat, neophobia, learned aversion (specialized learning, social learning about food, specific appetites for salt, proteins, predator avoidance. Influence of parental care on mating system: food choice at weaning : flavour cues in milk and mother following. New world wood-warblers (parulidae: north american wood birds warblers (56 species in na --> look and sound different, 1 of over 50 families of na passerines. A study done in 1960s on migratory behavior in european blackcap in the 1960s began to spend the winter in great britain and became increasingly common there over the next 30 years.
