PSYCH361 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1,2,3: Greylag Goose, Fixed Action Pattern, Ethology
13 Feb 2019
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Darwin"s theory of natural selection emphasized physiological adaptations and pointed the way to understanding psychological processes such as memory, perception, thoughts, and emotion. Ethology: the study of animals and what they do. The study of organisms and their relationship to their natural environment. Its emphasis is the study of innate mechanisms and the environmental factors that evoked their expression. From an ethological perspective, tinbergen suggested that there were four whys to be considered when studying behaviour: Causation what are the mechanisms that cause the behaviour. Development how does the behaviour develop in the individual. Evolution how has the behaviour evolved. Function what is the function or survival value of the behaviour. Imprinting: built-in pattern in which birds, such as ducks and geese, follow an object, usually their mother, that moves in front of them during the first 18 to 36 hours after birth.
