Animal Behavior Flashcards
Who came up with the idea of the “Chain of Being”?
Aristotle
What is another name for the “Chain of Being”?
Scala Naturae = Scale of Nature
Who wrote the book Principles of Psychology (1855) which proposed a model similar to the Chain of Being?
Herbert Spencer
Who wrote the book On the Origin of Species (1859) which proposed Natural Selection as the mechanism for behavioral variation in species?
Charles Darwin
The approach to the study of animal behavior focused primarily on the evolution and function of behavior.
Ethology
Which approach to the study of animal behavior initially conducted primarily field studies?
Ethology
The approach to the study of animal behavior focused primarily on the physiology, learning, and development of bheavior?
Comparative Psychology
Which approach to the study of animal behavior initially conducted primarily laboratory studies?
Comparative Psychology
Who developed a table of emotions chronicling the development of the mind and what he felt were the emergences of different emotions/behaviors?
George Romanes
Who is credited as one of the founders of Comparative Psychology for postulating a similarity of cognitive functioning between animals and humans?
George Romanes
Who was the first to state that animal behavior was instinctual (1918)?
Jacques Loeb
Who stated that all nonhuman behaviors were tropisms?
Jacques Loeb
A physiochemical response to a stimulus
Tropism
Which approach to animal behavior arose in Europe?
Ethology
Which approach to animal behavior arose in the United States?
Comparative Psychology
