Making an Ethogram and studying behavior

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

A stimulus that results in an exaggerated response is called:

1. Super stimulus
2. Supernormal stimulus
3. Sign stimulus
4. Sign response

Learning Objectives

- You can explain what behavior is and how behavior is classified.

- You can describe what ethology entails, how you can study behavior and explain the influence of behavioral research on society.

Studying behaviour

• Ethology: study of animal and human behaviour
• Behaviour contains actions (gedragselementen) : these are often interrelated and have a goal 
• Chain of behaviour
• Make an ethogram: a list of an animal's behaviour that creates an inventory of actions/movements/patterns that an animal exhibits
• Ethogram is a tool to measure behaviour to understand how an animal behaves and interacts with the environment

Hint: you can distinguish at least 10 different behavioural units

Learning Objectives

- You can explain what behavior is and how behavior is classified.

- You can describe what ethology entails, how you can study behavior and explain the influence of behavioral research on society.