PSYC 2230 Chapter 2: Chapter 2
7 Oct 2016
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Some motivated behaviours are genetically programmed into the nervous system. When a person sees someone that they know, they smile and briefly raise their eyebrows (this is shared with primitive and advanced) Genetically motivated behaviours are instincts: genetically programmed bit of behaviour that occurs when circumstances are appropriate and that requires no learning. Was popular in early times because it bridged primates and humans (by saying primates had some rationality and humans had some instincitality) Early instinct theories were important because they emphasized continuity of human and animal behaviour and because they provided a base from which the later ethological theories could build. Believed that instincts were similar to reflexes, are elicited by sensory stimuli, and occur blind the first time (the behaviour occurs automatically under appropriate conditions and without knowledge of the end or goal toward which the behaviour leads. He believed that instinctive behaviour changes with experience (ex: being on a nude beach.
