Exam 1 Content

Question 1

Coordinated response of living organisms to internal and/or external stimuli (environment)

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behavior

Question 2

observing events
organizing knowledge
providing explanations through the formulation and testing of hypotheses

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scientific process

Question 3

The scientific method is a formalized process that involves ______ ______

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hypothesis testing

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explanation based on assumptions that makes a testable prediction

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research hypothesis

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statistical hypothesis that the proposed explanation for observations does have a significant effect

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alternate hypothesis

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Statistical hypothesis that observations result from chance; allows us to test our ideas mathematically

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null hypothesis

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represents 2 variables that vary together predictably; relation between 2 variables

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correlation

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deals with immediate causes, immediate response; what results if this happens

Ex. metabolism increase temperature

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proximate explanation

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deals with the evolutionary history; is there something in the past that lead to this development?

Ex. asking why type of questions, historically

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ultimate explanations

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What are Tinbergen’s four questions

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1. Mechanism
2. Development
3. Survival and reproduction
4. Evolutionary/phylogeny

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studies animal behavior, often in a comparative manner across species, in order to understand human minds

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comparative psychology

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examined animal consciousness, comparative biology

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George Romanes

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the simplest psychological process possible should be used to interpret an animal’s behavior

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Morgan’s Canon, C. Lloyd Morgan

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pioneered use of standardized methodology and experimental method

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E.L. Thorndike

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Research on motor theory of consciousness; author of experimental methods in comparative psychology

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Margaret Floy Washburne

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Field of comparative psychology that studies behavior independent of animal mental states or consciousness

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behaviorism

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classical or Pavlovian conditioning; occurs when novel stimulus is pared with existing stimulus

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Ivan Pavlov

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Skinner boxes; chamber to study behavioral conditioning

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B. F. Skinner

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Study behavior of wild animals in nature by observation and experimentation

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classical ethology

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studied honeybee sensory perception and communication

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Karl von Frisch

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studied instinctive behavior in birds (imprinting)

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Konrad Lorenz

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Studied instinct

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Niko Tinbergen

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behaviors that are invariant and unlearned; individual knows behavior instinctively

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fixed action patterns

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initiate a fixed action pattern

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releaser stimuli

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seeks to understand human thinking and behavior and assumes that natural selection has shaped brain architecture and thought processes in an adaptive manner

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evolutionary psychology

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seeks to understand how natural selection acts on mental processes and cognition

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cognitive ethology

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focuses on the ecology and evolution of behavior and its fitness consequences

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behavioral ecology

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attributing human motivations, characteristics, or emotions to animals

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anthropomorphism

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“goal” directed

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teleological