PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clark L. Hull, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz
9 Feb 2017
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Response observable/measurable : see how somebody moves you can observe it how fast you can run nervous system that controls your muscles, more movement that goes along with your muscles organs, glands. System of instincts could be over ridden by experience and by each other many instincts in conflct with each other. Instincts are motive of behaviour impulses coming from within the organism that leads to the initiation of behaviour jealousy, aggression: biological ethology konrad lorenz and niko tinbergen. Appetitive instincts searching behaviours that are flexible, adapted to environment, subject to modification through learning comes before consummatory. Consummatory instincts fixed patterns of responsible to a specific stimulus, rigid, insensitive to the environment, highly stereotypes and independent from learning. All behaviours need a stimulus and some energy: stimuli distinction between stimuli that are objects and stimuli that are social. Key stimuli - want it more objects want the bigger ones. Social stimulus instinctual recognize facial expressions.
