ENVS 4040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karl Von Frisch, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Thomas Kuhn

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENVS 4040
• Professor: Gard Otis

Document Summary

Diagram showing broad overlap of behaviour with ecology, physiology and genetics. Basic beliefs that underlie our approach to scientific thought and experimentation. During first half of 20th century, there were two predominant and competing paradigms for the study of behaviour: Behaviorism: largely physiological, stressing role of experiences; no influence of. Ethology: stressing the effects of the animal"s environment on shaping behaviour; genetics ( nurture ). allowed for genetics ( nature ). How are conflicts between competing paradigms resolved? (cid:120) thomas kuhn, structure of scientific revolutions(1970). (cid:120) Kuhn referred to such events as scientific revolutions ,. Introduction by (dr. ) gard otis to himself and to the course. (cid:120) background (cid:120) class experiment (cid:120) discussions (cid:120) lectures (cid:120) video observations (cid:120) exams (cid:120) topics (please suggest any topics you would like to have covered) Aspects of insect biology that influence behaviour: insect senses: insect senses differ from those of humans and most other.