Course Outline
CBH 3003
Spring, 2005
Dr. Dewsbury
Lecture Outline
Note: This is an outline of the material I would like to
cover.
We will not cover it all. My hope is that this will be a guide to
help you
see the structure of the lectures and to prepare for exams.
Introductory Material
Comparative psychology
Why Comparative Psychology?
Knowledge for sake of knowledge
Space program model
Targeted applied research
Model systems
Biophilia
Perspective
4 Questions
Proximate questions
Immediate causation
Development
Ultimate questions
Evolutionary history
Adaptive significance=Function
3 problems
Genesis
Control
Consequences
Four Questions Video
Stickleback
Territory
Zig-zag dance
Ethologist
Tinbergen
4 questions
Causation (Immediate causation)
Function (Adaptive significance)
Development
Evolutionary history
Philosophical Issues
Ethics
Ethics of animal research
Singer (1975) Animal Liberation
IACUC
Ethical philosophies
Ethical relativism
Absolute dominionism
Anthropocentric consequentialism
Humane beneficence
Utilitarianism
Abolitionism
Speciesism
3 Rs
Replacement
Reduction
Refinement
Other philosophical concepts
Anthropomorphism
Anthropodenial
Lloyd Morgan’s canon
Parsimony
Vitalism
Emergent evolution
Reductionism
Teleology
Teleonomy
History of Animal Behavior Studies
[Names of Persons to be remembered for Exam have
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Early history
Aristotle*
Scala naturae
Falconry
Descartes*
Locke/ British empiricism*
Kant/ German rationalism*
Evolution
Lamarck
Inheritance of acquired traits
Darwin*
Natural selection
Origins of Species
Expression of the Emotions in Man and
Animals
Mendel
Animal behavior
Romanes*
Anecdotal method
Morgan*
Morgan’s canon
Ethology
Lorenz*
Tinbergen*
Fixed action pattern
Sign stimulus
Releaser
Innate releasing mechanism
Action specific energy
Vacuum activity
Lorenz hydraulic model
Supernormal stimulus
Karl von Frisch
Comparative psychology
Kline
Thorndike*
Puzzle box
Watson*
Washburn*
Köhler
Yerkes*
Sociobiology/ Behavioral ecology/Wilson
Cognitive revolution/Griffin
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary principles
Basics
Natural selection
Genus and species
Evolution as history
Punctuated equilibrium
Speciation
Allopatric
Sympatric
Adaptive radiation
Homology
Analogy
Balloon flies
Evolution as a process
Evolution is branching
Punctuated equilibrium
Animal species
Population vs. Typological
Thinking
Fitness
Level of action
Epideictic displays
Direct fitness/selection
Indirect fitness/selection
Kin selection/nepotism
Inclusive fitness
Altruism
Reciprocal altruism
Reputation
ESSs
Rules of Thumb
Darwinian medicine
Naturalistic fallacy
Behavior Genetics
Minnesota twin study
Genes and homosexuality
Principles of genetics
Phenotype
Genotype
Gene
Chromosome
Locus
Allele
Homozygote
Heterozygote
Dominance
Demonstrating genetic effects
Traditional methods
Inbred strain
Cross fostering
Ovarian transplant
Genetic selection study
Inter-species hybrids
Modern methods
Quantitative trait loci
Knockout genes
Transgenic animals
Zenk
Single-gene effects
Mendelian cross
PTC
Quantitative effects
Heritability
VT=VG+VE+VI
VG=VA+VD+VEPI
Heritability (broad)= oGD:
VG/VT
Heritability (narrow):
VA/VT
Realized heritability
Gene-environment interaction
Human behavior genetics
Fragile x syndrome
OGOD hypothesis
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