Causation and Development of Behaviour(1)

Causation and Development of Behaviour(1)

1. Body's responses to stimuli

   • Nervous System AND Endocrine System
     • A neuroendocrine response
   • Learned Response AND Cognitive Response
     • Experiential
       • Heightening / waning of an innate (instinctive) response

2. Factors that cause behaviour

   • Internal
     • Biological rhythms
       • Circadian rhythms
       • Circannual rhythms
     • Motivations; either homeostatic or non-homeostatic.
   • External
     • Biotic
     • Abiotic
   • Context Dependent
     • Alteration of a reaction to a stimuli with time
   • Errors
     • Misconception or misidentification of a stimuli

3. Types of Learning

   • Innate (Instinctive)
   • Maturation
     • Full behavioural repertoire
     • Behaviours change or start to be expressed at predictable stages as the individual ages
   • Chance
     • specific environmental event in crucial stage in life e.g. temperature/diet
   • Self Learning
     • Imprinting
     • Conditioning
     • Habituation
     • Discriminative learning
     • Associative Learning
   • Learning from others (social learning)
     • Observing & replicating
   • Insight Learning
     • highest form of learning ("Eureka moment")
     • Complex problem solving
       • Finding a solution
       • Achieving a reward
   • Facilitated learning hypothesis

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