PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethology, Sociobiology, Conditioned Taste Aversion

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: John Salamone

Document Summary

Ethology: the area of biology that studies animal behavior. 2. 2 animal behavior and ethology: ethologists focus upon evolutionary processes (natural selection) and behavior in naturalistic environment (the environment in which that organism evolved) Faps are stereotyped; fixed in the same way they are performed. Faps are ritualized; through evolution, behavior patterns can take on symbolic content; they become exaggerated or conspicuous, also communicate to other animals. Example of faps: retrieval, attack, courtship, threat, communication, imprinting: imprinting: developing organism (typically bird hatchlings) follow the first large object that moves in front of them (ducks, lorenz did an experiment on hatching the ducks. Faps can be similar in related species they followed him everywhere: are there human faps, according to ethologists, many forms of human social behavior reflect the influence of. Threat - clenched teeth, closed fists (growling from animals like cat or gorrilla) Early experience is of critical importance for development of faps.