Ethology WF-OB-ETA
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Content of the lecture:
1. Origin and development of ethology (2 hours).
- pre-ethological state of behavioural sciences
- the beginnings of ethology
- ethology separated by behavioural science
2. Being alive as an entity (6 hours).
- being alive in a "circle of functions"
- The role of senses and stimuli
- principles of stimulus functioning
- role of triggering mechanism
- types of triggering mechanism
3. Ethological instinct theory (6 hours)
- ethical view of the drive
- division of drives
- emotion as a phenomenon accompanying impulses
- the role of drives
- mutual relations between impulses
- N. Tinbergen's and K. Lorenz's theory of instinct
4. Mechanism of Instinctive Behavior (6 hours).
- structure of instinctive behavior
- stiffness and plasticity of instinct
- metastatic, ambivalent, and displaced actions
5. Interindividual behavior (6 hours).
- territorialism
- ethical meaning of the territory
- individual distance
- types of protection against danger
- the problem of aggression
6. From ethology to sociology (4 hours).
- specifics of social behaviour
- types of animal communities
- genesis of sociobiology
- theses of sociobiology
- controversy around sociobiology
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(in Polish) E-Learning
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge: the student is able to describe the nature as the set of cognitive, economic, aesthetic and educational values.
Abilities: the student is using the computer in the necessary scope for the information retrieval, communicating, organising and the preliminary data analysis, drafting reports and the presentation of results.
Competence: he knows the scope of the interdisciplinary knowledge possessed by oneself and possessed abilities, understands the need of constant training oneself and of the professional development, is demonstrating the carefulness and the criticism in accepting information from the scientific literature, of Internet, particularly available at mass media, having relating to the environmental protection. He is conscious of the self-limitation oneself in the management of resources.
Assessment criteria
Assessment methods: Written Test. Apply the material presented during lectures and reading.
ECTS:
participation in the lecture - 30
preparation for the lecture - 10
consultation - 5
preparation for the test - 15
SUM OF HOURS 60 [60: 30 = 2]
ECTS NUMBER - 2
Bibliography
Lorenz K., 1972, Tak zwane zło. tłum. A. D. Tauszyńska. Warszawa.
Łepko Z., 1991, Antropologia Konrada Lorenza. w: Lubański M., Ślaga Sz. W. (red.), Z zagadnień Filozofii Przyrodoznawstwa i Filozofii Przyrody, ATK, t. XIII, Warszawa 1991, ss. 157-279.
Łepko Z., Filozoficzna relewancja etologii,"Seminare" 20(2004), ss. 221-239.
Sadowski B., 2003, Biologiczne mechanizmy zachowania się ludzi i zwierząt. Warszawa.
Wilson E. P., 1988, O naturze ludzkiej. tłum. B. Szacka, Warszawa.
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