BIOL 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Whooping Crane, Greylag Goose

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 1030
• Professor: Kevin G.Scott

Document Summary

Actions animals do: how they do them, why they do them. Causes of behaviours: genetic, phenotypic traits passed through generation to generation. Learned: nature versus nurture instinct, and your upbringing/parenting experiences. Reponse to sign stimulus simple stimulus that elicits a response: will initiate a fixed action pattern. Fixed action pattern they are automatic, once the stimulus is perceived the action will continue without fail: unlearned pattern, instinct, unstoppable, once they are started the animal can not stop it half way through. The graylag goose the mother goose sees the egg that is displaced, and does a response of rolling the egg back to the others the pattern is uncontrollable (fixed action pattern) response to a sign stimulus: migration. Response to environmental stimuli: geography, the sun, stars, magnetic fields, moving across the planet to stay in a suitable environment some animals can see the magnetic fields eg. birds can detect it by specific receptors within their eyes.