Psychology 3721F/G Study Guide - Cleaner Fish, Psychophysics, Grouper
12 Dec 2012
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Lecture 1: minimizing thinking: a problem that was posed by a social psychologist who lived in new mexico by a friend who worked in the jewelry business primarily sold semi-precious stones that were local in her area. Turquoise: received a consignment of turquoise that was really high quality. Is puzzled by the fact that the mistaken message made her product sell even thought he price was doubled vs. cut in half. Fixed action patterns: stickleback fish when a female wants to indicate that she is sexually ready her chest turns bright red. There are trigger stimuli that tend to elicit a whole strain of behaviour: north american robins have a red chest in the spring that indicates sexual readiness. All you have to do is show the male red feathers and the male reacts in the same way as if it saw the red chest of a female robin.
