Animal Behavior

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Animal Behavior

• CHP 56

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What is Ethology?

• The study of the natural history of behavior
• Sign stimulus, innate releasing mechanism, and
  fixed action pattern
• Is it genetic?
• Stereotyped behaviors
• The rats in the maze
• Neuroethology

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Associative Behavior

• Require pairing of stimulus and response that
  is not innate, involves CNS
• Conditioned stimulus
• Pavlovs dog
• Operant conditioning
• Skinners box

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Instincts

• Learning preparedness- what an animal can learn
  is guided genetically
• Pigeons, rats, color and sound
• Evolutionary reasoning necessity
• Imprinting
• Filial
• Sexual
• Physiology hormones
• That leads to

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Courtship Rituals

• Stimulus-response chain
• Stickleback fish
• Hormones
• The ring doves
• Other fireflies, bird song, etc
• Communication both innate and learned
• Pheromones and chemoreceptors
• Bird songs
• language

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Migration

• Taxis- movement toward or away from some stimulus
• kinases
• Patterns instinct and navigation
• Magnetic fields, stars and sun