PSYO 2160 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Genetics, Fish, Ethology

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 2160
• Professor: Reeve Cathrine

Document Summary

Interest in processes: e. g. reproductive suppression in marmosets, fear/boldness in coyotes, theory of mind in apes. Interest in patterns: e. g. grooming behaviour in voles, play in elephant nose fish. Applications of animal behaviour (cid:498)behavioral technologies(cid:499) or specialized training: service dogs: animal sciences, zootechnology, agronomy, aquaculture, behavioral veterinary medicine, pet-assisted therapy (zootherapy), pet-companionship & assistantship programs, pet (pyscho)therapy, animal welfare, conservation. Three major fields of animal biology: psychology: animal (comparative) psychology, biology: behavioural biology, ethology, behavioural ecology. Sociobiology: anthropology, biological or physical anthropology, primatology, athrozoology (study of human-animal relationship) Sociobiology: historically controversial, critics drew parallels to eugenics, hybrid between ethology (with a focus on ultimate questions) and ecology (social systems/mating systems) with an increased interest in evolution (more than ethology), genetics, population biology/ecology. Behavioural ecology: born from sociobiology and influenced by comparative animal psychology, e. g. : optimal foraging theory, population regulation, predator-prey relations.