PSYC 308 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ethology, Wilhelm Wundt, Creation Science
10 Nov 2016
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What [the brain] does is part of what the body does (1) because the brain is part of the body. Behaviour of an organism as a whole is the product of 3 types of variation and selection: natural selection: responsible for the evolution of the species and hence for species behaviour . Supposed to correct the major fault in natural selection. Behaviour is reinforced, meaning that consequences following a behaviour make it more likely for that behaviour to re-occur. Fault: selection of new traits must wait upon variation. Because we can"t wait several generations for variation in behaviours to arise, operant conditioning posits that we imitate other"s successful behaviour (it"s successful because they aren"t dead/dying and are likely thriving in their similar environment) Modelling imitation, however, is still a product of natural selection because to be able to model a behaviour, one must have selected that behaviour after waiting a long time for it to arise.
