Description

Overview:

Reviews selected issues including learning, cognition, perception, foraging and feeding, migration and navigation, defense, and social activities including conflict, collaboration, courtship and reproduction, and communication. The interacting contributions of environment and heredity are examined and the approaches of psychology, ethology, and ecology to this area of study are treated. The relation of human behavior patterns to those of nonhuman animals is explored. Additional readings and a paper are required for graduate credit.

Subject:

Biology, Psychology

Level:

Academic Lower Division, Academic Upper Division

Material Type:

Full Course

Author:

Schneider, Gerald

Provider:

MIT

Provider Set:

MIT OpenCourseWare

Date Added:

01/01/2000