BIO 3147 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nomothetic

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Stimulus causes the response: reinforcement doesn"t only strengthen pattern of behaviour but acts as a stimulus and a, creating a biological deprivation creates a need and when need becomes intense enough, it causes, novelty is an incentive, once correcting the drive, homeostasis is achieved, repetition compulsion repeating certain habits over and over, novelties excite and could become a stimulus (ex. Following separation from the parent animal the baby chick calls out and in doing so is likely to be attended to and therefore survive: fertility concerns mating success insofar as mating rituals that attract a potential mate are likely to be retained into the next generation since its possessor would likely have been chosen to mate over other competitors, fecundity involves the number of offspring and the more fecund the more offspring is produced, some of whom may die off and thus fecundity insures some will survive.

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