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 26Midterm Exam I (33.3%) Jun 09Midterm Exam II (33.3%) Jun 25Final Exam (time TBA) (33.3%)

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

6. 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 )

7. Scala Naturae (the great chain of beings)

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

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

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

12. 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

13. The egg retrieval response of the greylag goose

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

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

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

18. 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 )

20. Thorndike’s puzzle box

21. Margaret and Harry Harlow Mother-Infant Bonding

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

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