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Language & the Mind LING240 Summer Session II 2005

Language & the Mind LING240 Summer Session II 2005. Lecture 2 Animal Communication & Human Instincts. Animal Communication. Are we special among species? What are other species capable of? Are language-learning abilities related to general cognitive capacities?

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33.1 Approaches to the Study of Behavior

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Extraordinary Claims

Extraordinary Claims. David Hume. David Hume. David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher during the Scottish Enlightenment, an intellectual and scientific boom in Scotland. (Other Scottish Enlightenment figures include the economist Adam Smith and the poet Robert Burns.)

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Animal Behavior IB 429 ANSC 466 ANTH 442 Pick up a syllabus if you did not get one Wednesday.

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Animal Behavior IB 429 ANSC 466 ANTH 442 Pick up a syllabus if you did not get one Wednesday.

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Animal behavior How do we study it? How do we classify it?

Animal behavior How do we study it? How do we classify it?. The science of animal behavior How do animals behave? proximate causation what physiological mechanisms enable this Why do they behave as they do? ultimate causation evolutionary origin and purpose of the behavior

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Animal Behavior: Why (and how) do animals do what they do?

Animal Behavior: Why (and how) do animals do what they do?. Picture: Animal cognition.net. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.): Observational work in zoology. Anatomy. Embryology. Behavior: Social organization. Characteristics: Vivipary.

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BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY

BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY. Section A: Introduction to Behavior and Behavioral Ecology. 1. What is behavior? 2. Behavior has both proximate and ultimate causes 3. Behavior results from both genes and environmental factors 4. Innate behavior is developmentally fixed

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Animal Behavior

Animal Behavior. Chapter 35. What is Behavior?. Responses of animals to environmental cues What and why it is done Controlled by nervous and endocrine systems Some are innate Heritable, stereotypic, and intrinsic Orb spider webs and newborn reflexes Some are learned

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Animal Cognition

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Evolution

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Review from last class

Review from last class. What is meant by the terms: 1. Linguistic competence 2. Linguistic performance What is grammar? What is grammar for? Is language possible without grammar? What is meant by the term: Prescriptivism? What is Descriptivism?. Animal Languages(?) A linguistic analysis.

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Founders of the field of Modern Ethology

Founders of the field of Modern Ethology. Modern Ethology : the study of the evolution and functional significance of behavior. Konrad Lorenz. Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) examined genetically programmed behaviors in young and imprinting.

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