PSYCH 2TT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Brown Rat, Xenophobia
23 Dec 2014
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Proximate questions: mechanism: what stimuli elicit behaviour and what changes happen in response/anticipation to stimuli, development: how does behaviour change as an animal matures, ultimate questions, survival value: how does behaviour affect survival and reproduction, evolutionary history: how does behaviour start/change throughout evolutionary history (phylogenetic), proximate analysis: immediate causes (what/how?, ultimate analysis: evolutionary forces (why?) : observer and demonstrator rat: the transfer of info from individual to individual, through teaching or social learning live in same cage for a few days, then demonstrator rat removed and taken to another cage where is was given one of two new diets food flavoured with cocoa or cinnamon. Just condensing and explaining a difficult topic q: which foods should an animal add to its diet, and under which conditions: use optimality theory: best solution to a problem. i. e. value of fawn: e= energy provided, h= time taken to handle prey, = rate encountered fawn = fawn l.
