Development and Range of Behavioral Capacities: Individual and Group Behaviour

Subject Outline

ABasic behavioral activities of individuals
- 1Food getting
- 2Locomotion
- 3Avoidance behaviour
- 4Aggressive behaviour: attack and defensive threats
- 5Behaviour related to habitat
- 6Behaviour related to reproduction
BHigher behavioral characteristics of individual animals
- 1Simple nonassociative learning; e.g., habituation, sensitization
- 2Associative learning; e.g., classical and instrumental, or operant, conditioning
- 3Spatial learning; e.g., maze learning, navigation
- 4Perceptual learning: imitation and observational learning; e.g., song learning, imprinting
- 5Complex problem solving
  - aDiscriminations of relational and abstract stimuli
  - bGeneralized rule learning
  - cInsight and reasoning
  - dLanguage learning
CThe behaviour of animals in groups
- 1Distinctions between groups of social animals and groups of nonsocial ones
- 2Animal communication
- 3The range of social behaviour among social and nonsocial animals
- 4Dynamics of social behaviour