BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Habituation, Startle Response, Reinforcement
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Learning objectives: define / explain significance of all red terms. Consult your textbook for any not defined in lecture: distinguish between proximate and ultimate questions, and between tinbergen"s four questions. Describe the contributions of tinbergen, lorenz and von frisch to the study of animal behaviour: differentiate between innate and learned behaviour. Describe the examples of each that were covered in lecture: differentiate between non-associative and associative learning. He founded experimental ethology (simple, elegant, classic experiments) Lorenz, tinbergen and von frisch won the nobel prize in medicine or psychology (1973) Recognition for animal behaviour as a rigorous science. Konrad lorenz was the founder of the term ethology. He discovered and published most of the classical phenomena of ethology. Motor response that is initiated by a environmental stimulus (i. e. key stimulus/releaser) Characteristics: sequence of events unavailable, innate (not learned, can be triggered under inappropriate circumstances, remarkably similar among members of a species (i. e. is highly stereotyped)
