BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fixed Action Pattern, Behaviorism, Reinforcement
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Learning objectives: define/explain all red terms, distinguish b/w proximate and ultimate questions, and between tinbergen"s 4 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 the lecture: differentiate between non-associative and associative learning. If you can answer all these questions, you can truly understand animal behaviour. Why/how does this work in an animal? (what neurons, chemicals are involved in triggering this response?) Who was tinbergen: lorenz, tinbergen, von frisch. Nobel prize in medicine or psychology (1973) (recognition for animal behaviour as a rigorous science) Konrad lorenz: founder, coined term ethology", discovered and published most of the classical phenomena of ethology, fixed action pattern (fap, famous for work on imprinting" in geese. Imprinting a type of pre-programmed learning in young animals during critical period of development (relate to modern family)
