BZ 300 1st Edition Lecture 1Outline of Last Lecture I. First day of class. No previous lecture. Outline of Current Lecture II. Overview of course. III. Early major Influences in the research of Animal BehaviorIIII. King Frederick the II, Darwin, C.L Morgan (Morgan’s Canon), and Oscar PfungstCurrent Lecture Introduction. Overview of Exams, office hours, etc. Look at attached syllabus found on Canvas.I. Half way through the class Mrs. Moore transitioned into the new material. She began by explaining the early influences in the Animal Behavior field. a. King Frederick II of the Holy Roman Emperor in the 13th century observed his falcons andwrote a book. There was no printing press and his ideas and research on animal behavior did not spread. There was a strong reliance on independent thoughts and observations. b. General scientific advances in animal behavior which lead to the modern animal behavior: human behavior, nervous system and Darwinism. c. The invention of the printing press gave reliance to independent observation and furthered the spread of individual ideas and observations.d. Since human’s personality traits were the most familiar, individuals began to give human personality traits to animals to cover for the confusion. i. George Romanes (Darwin’s prodigy) thought animal behavior was only created through introspection and analogy. However, Romanes was the first to do a detailed comparison on animals. e. C.L Morgan was the first to begin pure observation from thoughts. Questioned human traits with animal traits. Wanted the simplest explanation of animal’s behavior, did not focus on why. i. Developed Morgan’s Canon, a good starting point. Does not contribute animal behavior that could be explained in a simpler manner. Focuses on a lower psychological scale. Got rid of using human traits as an explanation. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.ii. Main point of Morgan’s Canon was to prefer the original hypotheses until you find a reason to reject it. But that does not mean that you don’t stop looking for a rejection.f. Clever Haans was a horse who could do simple mathematic equations. This violated Morgan’s Canon because it supported the idea that animals do in fact have human traits.i. Through observation Oscar Pfungst was able to prove that the horse was in fact clever but the person had to hear the question and know the answer before asking Clever Hans. The horse learned to read the human and where exactly he/she would tense due to the build up of anticipation, NOT the actual math
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