First Test Flashcards
Coolidge Effect
a copulating male who becomes incapable of continuing to copulate with one sex partner can often recommence copulating with a new sex partner
Korsakoff’s syndrome
severe memory loss in sufferers who are otherwise completely capable. commonly occurs in alcoholics…thiamine deficiency
Morgan’s Cannon
when there are several possible interpretations for a behavioural observation, the rule is to give precedence to the simplest one
Zeitgeist
general intellectual climate of our culture
ethology
study of animal behaviour in the wild
instinctive behavior
behaviour present in all ,embers of a species even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned
asomatognosia
the man who fell out of bed-cadaver leg, damage to right parietal lobe, self awareness issues
nature/nurture key points of interaction
1) neurone become active long before they are fully developed
2) the subsequent course of their development depends greatly on their activity, much of which is triggered by external experiences
3) experience continuously modifies genetic expression
Evidence for dawin’s evolution
1) evolution of fossil records through progressively more recent geological layers
2) described striking structural similarities among living species which suggested that they had evolved from a common ancestor
3) he pointed to the major changes that had been brought about in domestic plants and animals by programs of selective breeding
conspecifics
members of the same species, but with different courtship behaviours
Through evolution, the brain has…
1) increased in size
2) increased in size mostly in the cerebrum
3) increased in convolutions, brain folds
polygyny
most common mating pattern in mammals
dichotomous traits
one form or another, never in combination (seed colour)
true breeding lines
continual dichotomous traits of a certain type
epigenetics
mechanisms that influence the expression of genes without changing the genes themselves
