[PSYC 2330] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (28 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Between the stimulus and the response is the brain. Response: a quantifiable reaction to a stimulus. These instincts could be overridden by experience and by each within the organism that lead to the initiation of behaviour. Biological: ethology (kondrad lorenz & niko tinbergen) Exist because they have, or had, survival value. Controlled by genes, and therefore they are not learned. However, instinctive behaviours differ in terms of degree of sensitivity to changes in the environment: appetitive. Searching behaviours that are flexible, adapted to the environment, and subject to modification through learning: consummatory. Fixed patterns of responding to specific stimuli. These behaviours are rigid, insensitive to the environment, highly stereotyped and independent from learning. *all behaviours need a stimulus and some energy. Social releasers: releases a behaviour from another person, ex. Homeostasis the tendency of an organism to maintain an internal: body activates systems to reach/ bring it back to equilibrium equilibrium.