BIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 51: Endocrine System, Mate Choice, Karl Von Frisch
25 Aug 2016
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Explain the proximate and ultimate aspects of a behaviour. Discuss the ways in which behaviour may be stereotyped or flexible. Describe the different types of learning and define their characteristics. Examine how behaviour is determined by hormones and nerves. Ecology: study of how organisms interact with their physical and biological environments. Most behavioural studies start by carefully observing what animals do in response to specific problems or situations. Investigators use experimental approaches to probe the proximate and ultimate causation of behaviour. Proximate causation: explains how actions occur in terms of neurological, hormonal and skeletal muscular mechanisms involved. Asks how an individual does what it does. Ultimate causation: explains why actions occur based on their evolutionary consequences and history. Some animals respond to change in their environment in a highly predictable way. Inflexible stereotypes behaviour are called fixed action patterns example of innate behaviour.
