BIOL 3750 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Operant Conditioning, Konrad Lorenz, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 3750
• Professor: David Wilson

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Instinct: innate behaviour that is not amenable to experiential modification (ex. Comparative approach: contrasting behaviour among closely-related species to explore patterns of evolution (ex. Sexual cannibalism: cannibalization of the male during courtships to enhance possibility of survival (ex. Nuptial gift: any valuable substance offered to the mate during courtship. Learning: the developmental modification of behaviour through experience. Appetitive behaviour: highly variable behaviour that brings an animal into the appropriate stimulus situation, striving for the correct stimulus situation. Consummatory behaviour: the stereotyped behaviour that completes the behavioural sequence (consummatory act). Fixed action pattern: an instinctive behavioural sequence that is relatively invariant and almost inevitably runs to completion. Releasers: ti(cid:373)uli produ(cid:272)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) spe(cid:272)ies (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h release a fi(cid:454)ed a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) patter(cid:374). Sign stimuli: stimuli produced from other elements of the environment which release a fixed action pattern. Supernormal stimulus: an exaggerated version of a stimulus that elicits an exaggerated response (ex.