PSYC-2707EL Final: Module 2 Study Questions

• School: Laurentian
• Department: Psychology / Psychologie
• Course: PSYC-2707EL
• Professor: Emond

Document Summary

No agreement to the types or how many exist. No criteria for which behaviours are instinctive or not. Movements through which the behaviour occurs can be modified. Multiple instincts can be triggered at once. Instinctive behaviours can be more or less intense in different situations: the nominal fallacy when a behaviour is considered to be instinctual, but it does(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:449)h(cid:455) the behaviour happens. For example, seeing someone being aggressive might trigger an explanation to say that the (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour is fro(cid:373) a(cid:374) aggressi(cid:448)e i(cid:374)sti(cid:374)(cid:272)t, (cid:271)ut it does(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:449)h(cid:455) the perso(cid:374) is (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g aggressive: mcdougall says that instincts can be altered: (cid:1007). Tol(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:894)"(cid:1006)(cid:1007)(cid:895) argued: consummatory behaviour is well coordinated, fixed patterns of responding to specific stimuli. Appetitive behaviour is restless, searching behaviour, flexible and adaptive to environment. Consummatory and appetitive behaviour are the same in that they are motives that organisms act upon until the tension is resolved. These two behaviours are different in the rigidity of each behaviour.