According to Temple Grandin, fear and prey chase drive are two emotions that all animals have. I agree with Temple Grandin that animals have the emotions of fear and prey chase drive. I personally believe cats exhibit these emotions. My definition of fear would be if a cat ran or hide from another animal, human or object. If the cat hisses or growls it would also indicate fear. My definition of prey chase drive is if a cat sneaks up on another animal or object. If the cat is low to the ground, keeps quite and follows the prey then chases the prey when it gets close enough would be considered prey chase drive. By using readings such as Animals In Translation by Temple Grandin and my own observations I had evidence to support my theory that …show more content…
She quietly laid and watched the funny for about 15 seconds before starting to slowly walk towards the bunny. She was low to the ground moving slowly towards the bunny. When she knew the bunny sensed her presence she chased the bunny around the yard. She was unable to catch the bunny after it slipped through a hole in the fence. She demonstrated my definition of prey chase drive. Another observation I made was we had a family of Quails living in our backyard. The family was sitting on the fence as my cat watched them from the window. I let my cat outside and observed her behavior. She just laid in the grass watch the birds until finally one flew to the ground. It was a younger quail. After waiting patiently in the grass my cat began to chase the bird to try and catch it off guard. Even though the cat did not exhibit all the traits that were in the definition, she still used some aspects in her body language to show the emotion prey chase drive. Grandin states, “The emotion of chasing down prey and the behavior of killing the prey are controlled by different circuits in the brain” (Grandin, p.136). Both of my observations along with Grandin supporting the idea of prey chase drive is an emotion support my …show more content…
My cat might have had past experiences, which is why she only reacted to men. Even if she had a bad experience she still is exhibiting the emotion fear for a reason. If I were to continue gathering observations I would try to have more data that reflected the same findings. Also I would observe other cats in the same situation and other breeds of cats. I disagree with scientists who believe animals have no emotions. Based off my observations and readings cats do have
Fear is one of human's emotions that sometimes prevent humans to be successful. The other acceptable definitions for fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the nearness danger or expectation of pain. The main character in the novel that called Life of Pi written by Yann Martel is Pi who challenges with many issues in his journey from India to Canada. One of the issues is living alone on the lifeboat in the middle of ocean with a Bengal tiger for while. One can learn to deal with fear as Pi deals with the tiger that called Richard Parker. Pi faces his fears, takes practical steps, persevere, and acknowledge his fears.
The behaviorist theory is a theory of psychology that emerged in the early twentieth century that was a response to a number of predictions regarding observable behaviors. A majority of the theory concerned itself on the behavior of animals and humans, on the physical, observable behavior, not the unobservable events. Psychologists believe that us as learners start off with a clean slate and our behavior is shaped by the environment we are brought and raised in, therefore, our behavior is formed by positive and negative factors we create while growing in our environment. Our observable behavior is linked to our thinking and our emotions we give off. Psychologists have studied that there is little difference recorded from the thoughts and emotions that take place in a humans mind and from an animals. An individual has no free will and their environment determines the type of the behavior they have. Everyone’s environment they live in is teaching the behavior individuals have. Internally, our behaviors are a result of stimuli. The stimulus causes the reaction and what reaction that wil...
One of the most surprising and uncommon events happened to me in the summer of 2015, Sedona, Arizona. It started out as a pleasant summer getaway; visiting the Grand Canyon, Sedona rock slides, and just having an amazing, memorable time with friends and family. One day, we decided that it would be enjoyable to have a picnic in the forest. The trees were deep green and lush. The tranquil, relaxing stream of a nearby river could be heard, and birds were chirping cheerfully. After lunch, we all decided upon venturing deeper into the forest near the river. On a rock, a single bright, pastel green caterpillar- equipped with unique spikes, caught our eyes. None of us had ever seen such a creature. We were captivated and intrigued. Since we were not
For instance Rainsford is driven by survival “Rainsford took up his flight again. It was flight now, a desperate hopeless flight”(Bradbury 18). Rainsford’s survival is key and as he’s being chased he needs to run so his motivation to run is his survival. Rainsford knows he will need to run to survive so he does. He runs because that is his only chance of survival and survival is his motivation. Whereas, Margot wants to see the sun again “Only when they sang about the sun and the Summer did her lips move”(Connell 194). Margot won’t do anything in the world with no sun unless she is talking about the sun or singing about it because she is motivated by the sun and seeing and feeling it. Margot does activities and gets excited to hear about the sun because that’s what she wants she is motivated by it and wants it back. Rainsford and Margot both have motivations, but they are different. Rainsford is motivated to keep going by survival whereas Margot is motivated by the sun and her memories of
Motive theory is one more way psychologists evaluate personality. The motive theory searches for reasons why people do what they do. It asks questions like what drives people. The underlying idea of the motive theory is that behavior reflects underlying needs. A need represents an unsatisfactory state of being. For instance, primary needs are biological, such as a need for air, water and food. After these basic needs are met, less important needs can be met such as friendship and even love. David McCelland and John Atkinson studied the need for achievement. The need for achievement is the desire to do things well and have pleasure in overcoming obstacles (Clark et al., 1956). The need for achievement varies depending on sex, and childhood
Introduction In this lab, we explore the theory of optimal foraging and the theory of central place foraging using beavers as the model animal. Ý= Identifies the scientific concept which forms the learning context for the lab. Foraging refers to the mammalian behavior associated with searching for food.
The ability for an animal to reason and have rational thought has been highly represented by researching crows. Crows have shown on numerous occasions through many experiments that they maintain the ability to access experiences and choose their actions based on said experiences. For example, in the documentary, A Murder of Crows, it was shown that crows had the ability to recognize faces of those who had captured them, and then would go on to inform their fellow crows of the very person who committed such an atrocity. They showed that they had rational control of their actions by swooping in and intimidatingly cawing when they saw someone who had offended them. They accessed a sense, in this case, a memory, and reasoned that it was best that they attempt to persuade the intruder to leave. The ability for a crow to reason was also demonstrated by its ability to determine which object to choose to get a reward. The crows were shown two sets of images. One picture would result in them earning a treat, while the other would give nothing. The crows could reason
...and dominance standing among members of an equivalent species. Moreover it's been instructed that within the evolution of animate thing prokaryotes to cellular eukaryotes, primal secretion signal between people might have evolved to paracrine and endocrine signal among individual organisms. Some authors assume that approach-avoidance reactions in animals, evoked by chemical cues, type the biological process basis for the expertise of emotions in humans.
“Towards the end of his counting the cobra went outside to the bowl of milk and he slammed the doors shutting it out. The man then went on saying that the scientist had just proved that men have more self control than women, but then the scientist asked the hostess how she knew there was a cobra. She said “because it was lying across my foot.” Some women can and will have the self control to not jump or scream at the sight of a mouse, cobra, or something scary. When women are in scary situations they have an instinct to protect people like it was their own kid and in doing that they have to remain calm.
...his builds a relationship between the two causing the predator to consume its meat without looking away (Pollan 307). This causes that person to no want to know what they are eating because people are used to not knowing what they are eating.
Emotions are (in part) for survival, and the more complex the emotion, the more complex the system to process it must be (both in theory and in context). If an emotion or mood is as simple as fight or flight, then this is something that is instilled in reptiles, mammals, and humans alike. These emotions are more easily figured out in the human brain, and seem to be easier to experiment with as well as find out about. There has been a large amount of research on the amygdala and fight or flight response, which as was stated above, is a basic emotion that reptiles, mammals, and humans all seem to have alike. The mor...
The Behaviourist and Psychodynamic perspective are based on experiences during childhood. John B. Watson arose with the Behaviourist perspective affirming that the aggressive behaviour is learnt by environment as well as an external approach trough observation. Referent to the above, the children as well as the animals imitate behaviour from adults and people, we are saying this by an experiment performed
These scientist attempted to understand motivation with instincts that are found both in human and in animals. Sometimes instinct can be related to aggressive behaviors. In reality instinct can be related to curiosity, running away, aggressiveness, and gathering possessions proposed by William McDougall in 1908.There are also cases where drive-reduction theory connects to internal physiology and outward behavior causing an organism that has a need, like hunger, to lead into psychological tension that motivates the organism to act, fulfilling the need and reducing tension. Drive-reduction theory also has two drives which are primary drives that involve needs of the body, while acquired (secondary) drives are learned through experience. Homeostasis also includes into the drive-reduction theory which causes the tendency of the body to maintain a steady state. Also, the need for affiliation (nAff) helps and individual have a friendly social interaction and relationships with others as well as to be thought as something great with
(A) The sexual and aggressive drives are primary; a drive is not a behavior, only biological impulses. (B) Darwin argued that reproductive success is the key to survival and evolution, so natural selection is wholly based on sexual gratification.
Motivation and emotion are usually viewed as two psychological features that seemingly share cause-and-effect relationship. We often see motivation as something that stimulates a person to act and behave to achieve a desired goal, while emotion is the feelings that emerge from the motive or drive itself, from the actions caused by the motive and from the achievement or failure of the desired goal. However. Motivation has been defined in different ways over the years, but a common component of the different definitions is that motivation is a force that energizes, activates and directs behaviour. In 2006, Franken defined motivation as the “arousal, direction and persistence of a person’s behaviour”. Motivation has been defined in various ways