History of Ethology

Question 1

Wrote multiple manuscripts about animals (history of animals)
Documented several types of unknown behaviors
Thought that humans and animals were separate
Largely anecdotal

Answer 1

aristotle

Question 2

Focused on how behaviors could be adaptations and subject to natural selection
Behaviors can also be adaptations
Largely anecdotal

Answer 2

Charles Darwin

Question 3

subfield of comparative psychology

Answer 3

behaviorism

Question 4

what did behaviorsit’s focus on? and what did they beleive?

Answer 4

Behaviorists focused on/ studied observable behaviors
Believed mental states could not be studied

Question 5

the pure study of animal behavior

Answer 5

ethology

Question 6

genetically based, does not change through experience or learning

Answer 6

Innate behaviors

Question 7

automatic responses to specific stimuli

Answer 7

reflexes

Question 8

random movement

Answer 8

kinesis

Question 9

kinesis is _____ is unfavorable enviornments

Answer 9

faster

Question 10

kinesis is _____ in favorable enviornments

Answer 10

slower

Question 11

movement toward a positive or away form a negative stimulus

Answer 11

taxis

Question 12

moving in response to light

Answer 12

Phototaxis

Question 13

moving in response to a chemical
Ex. smell

Answer 13

chemotaxis

Question 14

moving in response to gravity
Ex gravity

Answer 14

Geotaxis

Question 15

sequence of complex actions that is always the same in every individual

Answer 15

fixed action patterns