PSYO 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canidae, Parquetry, Stereotypy
30 Apr 2016
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Predictability of the action, movements are rhythmic, often repetitive. John fentress became famous because of iniate grooming sequences in rodents. They groom and the groom very quickly, this is beyond a fap. This can not be explained based on a site stimulous, irm. Came up with a strange and elegant experiment, have they learned this from watching others or do they do it automatically. There was a control group and an experimental group, the experimental group had amputations at birth. It is a bit like stating that vision is no longer relevant to the study of behaviour. John said evey time we find a behaviour that is more behaviouralistic we will come up with a new term. If you want to say that behaviour is more or less fixed, you use the stochastic principle. Beach: species typical behavioural patterns which is a great term actually. Mordern terminology action sequences or natural action secquences .
