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Ethological explanation
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- 1What do ethologists study?Ethologists study how animals behave in their natural habitat
- 2Who is an example of an ethologist?Lorenz (He studied geese in their natural enviroment)
- 3What reason do ethologists give for being able to link animals behaviour to humans behaviour?Ethologists believe that animals and humans behaviour are the same due to both behaviours being due to both being the subject of natural selection
- 4Why does Lorenz think that aggression has evolved?- To ensure that only the strongest and fittest males pass on their genes
-To disperse members of species more widely so territorial recourses are exhausted less quickly and disease has less impact
-To help maintain hierarchies in socially organised animals - 5What is ritual aggression?Ritual aggression is a series of behaviours carried out in a set order
- 6What did Lorenz find out about animals of the same species fighting?Lorenz found that animals of the same species rarely caused much damage to each other. They mostly just involve ritualistic signalling
- 7What ritualistic signalling did Lorenz find animals showing one another?- exposing teeth and claws
-facial expressions of threat - 8What do animals fights often lead to?Animals fights often lead to appeasement displays whereby the loser indicates that they accept the defeat to prevent any further damage being done
- 9What do wolves do to indicate they accept being defeated?Wolves normally submit by exposing its neck
- 10What do ethological explanations suggest?Ethological explanations suggest that aggression is adaptive, because if every aggressive encounter ended in death the species would die out
- 11What is an innate releasing mechanism?An innate releasing mechanism is a built in psychological process or structure in the brain (e.g: A network of neurons)
- 12What is a fixed action pattern?A fixed action pattern is an instinctive behavioural sequence caused by the build up of action specific energy and triggered by a sign stimuli
- 13What leads to a fixed action plan?An environmental stimuli (sign stimulus SS) triggers the IRM which leads to a fixed action plan
- 14Who studied male sticklebacks?Tinbergen in 1951
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- A level Psychology (Aggression ) FlashCards sobre Ethological explanation, criado por Chloe Lewis em 20-11-2017.
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