E.2 Perception of Stimuli

Four Sensory receptors:

• 1. Mechanoreceptors Stimulated by some type of pressure

2. Chemoreceptors

respond to chemical substances

3. Thermoreceptors

respond to a change in temperature

4. Photoreceptors

respond to light energy

Know the eye?

Rods and Cones

Ear

E.3 Innate and Learned Behavior

Innate –vs- Learned

• Develops independently of the environment

• Controlled by genes

• Inherited from parents

• Increases chance of survival and reproduction

• Develops dependently of the environment

• Not controlled by genes

• Develops by response to an environmental stimulus

• May or may not increase chance of survival and rep.

TAXIS: a direct response to a stimulus

• Response to chemicals in the environment

• Response to light• Response to gravity• Response to water current• Response to touch• Flatworm that has two eyespots with

photoreceptors and chemoreceptors• Single-celled protist with eyespot and is

positively phototaxic

chemotaxis

phototaxis

Gravitaxis

Rheotaxis

thigmotaxis

Planaria

Euglena

KINESIS: a movement in response to a non-directional stimulus

• When an organism changes speed in response to stimulus but does not move towards it

• When an organism turns slowly or rapidly in response to the stimulus but doesn’t move towards it

Orthokinesis

Klinokinesis

Examples of Learning increasing survival

• Imprinting

•Birdsong

•Hoarding food … Like Monica

DON’T FORGET!

•Go back over the kinesis experiment (pg 475) and Pavlov’s experiments!!!!

E.5 Brain

fMRI

• X-rays? NO!• Radio waves and a strong magnetic field• Allows scientists to see current blood flow

in the brain• Take movies while subject does different

tasks• Determines when regions of the brain

become active and how long they remain active

So why? (5 reasons)

1. Plan for surgery

2. Treatment for stroke

3. Placement of radiation therapy for a brain tumor

4. Effects of degenerative brain disease

5. Diagnosing how a diseased or injured brain is working

Sympathetic or Parasympathetic?

• Important in emergency• Neurotransmitter is acetylcholine• Response is to relax• Excitatory• Important in returning to normal• Inhibitory• Response is ‘fight or flight’• Neurotrans. noradrenaline

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Testing for Brain Death

• Movement of extremities• Eye movement• Corneal reflex• Pupil reflex• Gag reflex• respiration

E.6 Further studies of Behavior

Social Organizations (bees)

• Queen– Lays eggs– Makes pheromones to calm colony and cause

other females to be sterile• Worker

– Feeds larvae– Produces wax and honey– Searches for nectar and pollen– Protects hive

• Drone– Mates with Queen

Foraging

• Behavioural ecologists base predictions of animal foraging based on cost-benefit analysis of the behavior

• Animals tend to change their behaviour in order to keep the high ratio of the energy taken in compared to the energy they expend

Mate Selection

• Leads to exaggerated traits• Ex) peacocks

• Rhythmic Variations in activity• Reproductive rhythm• Ex) coral release gametes in synchronized mass

spawning ritual• Too much food for predators

Daily rhythms

• behaviours usually have a strong endogenous component, but exogenic cues are important in keeping the internal biological clock synchronized with the environment.

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