Behavior

• Biologie / Verzorging
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome!

Questions about paragraph 5.4

Explanation about behavior

Making exercises paragraph 5.5

You see tasty food, what is this?

1. A stimilus
2. An impulse

Your brains send a signal to pick up the food and eat it. What is this?

1. A stimulus
2. An impulse

Nerve cells have shoots that can be more than a meter long

1. True
2. False

What are we going to learn today?

Today we will be learning:

What behavior is.

How behavior comes about

How we research behavior. 

Behavior

Behavior are actions that respond to a stimulus (both internal or external). Oftentimes a lot of actions are shown in response to a stimulus. This is called a chain of behavior.

Behavior

Motivation is the urge to come to a certain action. Motivation is often low when the stimulus is faint, but becomes higher when the stimulus gets stronger as well. 

Innate/learned

A lifelong discussion between biologists is whether certain behavior is innate or learned. Is it a part of your DNA or did other people teach you this behavior? 

When researching this we often use identical twins? Can you think of the reason why? 

Social behavior

People are herd animals, we live in groups. We are also civilized, this means we treat others the same wat we want to be treated. Norms and values are very important within this subject. Values are things we consider to be important and norms are rules we hold to ourselves to perserve that value.

Observing behavior

When researching behavior, it is often hard to not draw any conclusions to it immediately. That is why we write down observations; the thing we see. After that we can do research about the animal and interpret that behavior; give a meaning to it. 

Homework for next lesson

The homework for next lesson are the exercises of paragraph 5.5 inclusing the summary and plusexercise. You can work on them now.