PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Ethology, Homeostasis
31 Mar 2016
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Obtaining something or getting away from something. A set of responses of organism, usually in relation to environmental stimuli (goals) Instinctual behaviour (instincts: relexes, genetically programmed behaviours that occurs when circumstances are appropriate, requires no learning, set by genes, dna. Learned behaviour: developing complex interpretations of behaviours and understanding of where they are applied, relatively lexible, open to interpretation. Instincts are inluenced by natural selection o: can be overridden by experience and by each other many instincts o are in conlict with one another. Instincts are motivators of behaviour impulses coming from within the organism that lead to initiation of behaviour: made a complex list of instincts and those in conlict with each other, which one would win, etc. Biological kondrad lorenz & niko tinbergen: ethology o. Instincts are behaviours they exist becasuse they have/had survival value: controlled by genes, they are not learned, difer in terms of degree of sensitivity to changes in the environment.
