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Psychology 2700 Animal Behaviour

Psychology 2700 Animal Behaviour. Summer session I 2003 Monday and Wednesday 9:00 - 11:50 a.m. Room: D 634. Instructor: Joanna Komorowska How to reach me? Office: C 883 Office hours: Wed 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (or by appointment) Phone: 329-2436 E-mail: j.komorowska@ulteth.ca.

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Psychology 2700 Animal Behaviour

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  1. Psychology 2700 Animal Behaviour Summer session I 2003 Monday and Wednesday 9:00 - 11:50 a.m. Room: D 634

  2. Instructor: Joanna Komorowska How to reach me? • Office: C 883 • Office hours: Wed 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (or by appointment) • Phone: 329-2436 • E-mail: j.komorowska@ulteth.ca

  3. Exams May 26 Midterm Exam I (33.3%) Jun 09 Midterm Exam II (33.3%) Jun 25 Final Exam (time TBA) (33.3%)

  4. Why study animal behaviour? • Pragmatic reasons • Protection of endangered species • As models of human behaviour • Curiosity

  5. History of Studies of Animal Behaviour • Scala Naturae (Aristotle) • Evolutionary Approach (J.Lamarck; C.Darwin) • Ethology (K.Lorenz; N.Tinbergen) • Comparative Psychology (C.Morgan; E.Thorndike; M.&H.Harlow; K.Lashley) • Sociobiology/Behavioural Ecology (E.O.Wilson; W.D.Hamilton)

  6. Scala Naturae (the great chain of beings)

  7. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) Engraving in 1821

  8. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)wedding portrait done in 1841

  9. Evolution, function Innate behaviour Many species Natural habitats Species differences Mechanisms, development Learned behavour Few species Laboratory General laws Ethologists Comparative Psychologists

  10. Fixed Action Pattern- a programmed behaviour pattern triggered by a specific environmental stimulus • It is innate or unlearned • It is stereotyped • It is difficult to disrupt

  11. The egg retrieval response of the greylag goose

  12. A gull attempting to incubate a super-egg instead of her own egg

  13. Clever Hans - a horse with a head for numbers

  14. Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936) Photograph from ca. 1900

  15. Morgan’s Canon “In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.” (Morgan 1891, p. 53)

  16. Thorndike’s puzzle box

  17. Mother-Infant Bonding Margaret and Harry Harlow

  18. Karl Lashley attempted to locate the locus of learning in the cerebral corex

  19. Sociobiology and Behavioural Ecology Alarm call by a ground squirrel

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