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13 Cards in this Set
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Charles Darwin
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Natural Selection
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Konrad Lorenz
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Founder of ethology, the study of animal behaviors.
Imprinting - Animals attach to first moving thing post-birth |
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Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Fixed action patterns - complex instinctual chains of behavior performed by most members of a species upon a releasing stimuli
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Walter Cannon
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Fight or Flight
Homeostasis |
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Karl von Frisch
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Honeybee dancing
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Wolfgang Kohler
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A-ha! Moment - when working with chimps, Kohler found that chimps used flashes of insight to use tools to solve a problem.
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Harry Harlow
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Social isolation's affects on monkeys
Wiremother vs. Clothmother |
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R.C. Tyron
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Heritability of behavior
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Edward Thorndike
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Instrumental learning - Learning that occurs through trial and error.
Law of Effect - successful behaviors are more likely to be repeated |
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Eric Kandel
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Worked with sea slugs, learned that learning and memory are actual changes in neural pathways
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Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz
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Tri-Color Theory - three types of receptors in retina (red, green, blue)
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Ewald Hering
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Opponent-color Theory - Two types of color sensitive cells in lateral geniculate body (red-green, blue-yellow)
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David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
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Cells in visual cortex so specialized they respond only to very specific types of stimuli
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