Innate Behaviour - Week 4 Flashcards
Primitive Inborn Responses (What is Reflex?)
Form of response when a particular stimulus is presented (Knee jerking, Blinking etc)
Primitive Inborn Reflexes (What is kinesis?)
Reflexes involving whole body (Migration)
Reflexes in Paedriatrics
Infant feeding, motor reflexes etc.
Primitive Inborn Response (What is Taxis?)
Involves directional behaviour in reflex to a stimulus (Moths attracted to light etc.)
Fixed Action Patterns
More complex than reflexes, but very robotic
Fixed action pattern characteristics
- Everyone produces them
- Adaptive
- Specific Activation and stimulus context
- Response is almost identical
- Response is almost automatic
FAP Examples
Oval shape objects triggers geese to roll them. Red belly fish activate attack response, while non-red belly fish dont
Deprivation Experiment
Deprived of learning from others.
Displacement Activities
Fight or Flight
Imprinting
Attachment to objects or animals during development
Filial Imprinting
Attachment to moving objects during critical period after birth.
Other roles for imprinting
Species and sex identification
Primates prefer
Attachment to softer objects
Habituation
Stimulus shown over and over meaning reduced attention designated
Innate or Learned
Behaviours may be learnt and innate at the same time
