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Test 1- Topic 2 (20th Century) Flashcards

1
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What did Ernst Mayr do?

A

Decided that animal behavior causation can be grouped in to two sections: Proximate and Ultimate

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Proximate

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immediate mechanism that generates behavior

“How” and “what” questions

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Ultimate

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Evolutionary cause for the behavior

“why” questions

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Tingbergens four questoins

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Proximate: Ontogeny and Physiology
Ultimate: Fitness and Phylogeny

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Ontogeny

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Developmental reasons

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Physiology

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Mechanistic (how does this occur)

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Fitness

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What is the function of the behavior?

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Phylogeny

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How did the behavior evolve

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Ethogram

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Full inventory of an animals behaviors– come up with terms and descriptions for each movement

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Who were the two prominent north american comparative psychologist?

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Thorndike- Standardized methodology

Margret Floy Washburn- First textbook

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Who were the five notable psychologists?

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Watson, Skinner, Garcia, Pavlov, Domjan

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Comparative Psychology

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the study of different animals’

behavior patterns in order to determine the general principles that explain their actions.

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Downfalls of comparative psy?

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Only looked at individual models, all in laboratory, only looked at a few animals, REJECTED INSTINCT

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Ethology

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Study behavior of wild animals through observation and experimentation

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Three nobel prize winners in ethology

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Tinbergen, Lorenz, Frisch

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Innate behaviors

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Genetically predisposed behavior

17
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What is a FAP?

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Fixed Action Patterns are behaviors animals do that are unchanging and not learned

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7 Descriptive Characteristics of Fixed Action Patterns?

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1) Stereotyped
2) Same for all members of the species
3) Triggered by stimulus
4) Stimulus is

19
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What is a releaser stimuli?

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A stimulus that initiates the fixed action pattern

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