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Learning: Principles and Applications, 4/e
Stephen B Klein, Mississippi State University
The Modification Of Instinctive Behavior

Internet Exercises

  1. What influence do scientists have on others? How are their theories and ideas tested in other ways and with other species?

    ANT LANGUAGE
    http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1986/nov/features_861117.html
    This is a short and interesting article on language in ants that was stimulated by a talk by Lorenz. You may have to register (it is free) to read the article.

  2. Can you distinguish between a taxis, a reflex and an instinct?

    A KNEE-JERK REACTION
    http://drbeetle.homestead.com/instincts.html
    This document provides a brief summary of the differences between the three terms and gives some additional references.

  3. What motivates a person to become a scientist?

    SUSHI ANYONE?
    http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/dewaal-sushi.html
    This link is to the first chapter of The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist by Frans de Waal.

  4. What is ethology and what does an ethologist study? Find out more about the work begun by Lorenz, Tinbergen and others.

    ROCKIN' ROBIN
    http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ethology/introduction_to_ethology.htm
    This link provides a good introduction to ethology, and includes visuals and sounds of various animals being studied.

  5. What do we know about smoking behavior? How much of the smoking behavior is learned?

    THE UPS AND DOWNS OF SMOKING
    http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/monographs/17.pdf
    This link is to a government monograph that deals with smoking behavior. There is a chapter on Opponent process of habitual behaviors dealing with smoking.









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