Behavioral Development and Comparative Psychology

Schneirla, T. C.

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“…The potential importance of this issue, which was discussed in detail by Schneirla (1966) and Gottlieb (1973a), is easily underestimated. It is helpful to distinguish, as Gottlieb (1973b) has done, between ''facilitative precursors'' and ''determinative precursors.''…”

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The innate and the acquired: Useful clusters or a residual distinction from folk biology?

Bateson

Mameli

2007

Developmental Psychobiology

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The idea of the innate and the acquired is a part of folk-biology but is also used by biologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists in their disciplines. Are they right to do so? Innateness is often defined by appealing to the role of genes in development, to the role of Darwinian evolution in shaping developmental processes, to the non-involvement of learning during development, to developmental robustness, and to modularity. We argue that all such definitions are unsatisfactory. Some are unsatisfactory because they are based on simplistic and empirically outmoded views of development. Others are empirically defensible but are unsatisfactory because they do not capture the full breadth of the use of the term ''innate'' and, due to this restriction, they can easily lead to inferential mistakes. The definition of acquired behavior has been used with greater sophistication and is generally regarded as being heterogeneous. Nevertheless, in as much as the overall category has been seen in opposition to the innate, it has been an obstacle to a thorough investigation of how behavior develops. We suggest that a useful way forward is to examine whether or not the empirically well-established properties often associated with the concept of innate and the concept of acquired form theoretically useful clusters. This path leads to a much fuller appreciation of the view favored by Gilbert Gottlieb, according to which development involves the continuous interplay of the organism (and its genes) with its environment. ß 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 49: 818-831, 2007.

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The innate and the acquired: Useful clusters or a residual distinction from folk biology?

Bateson

Mameli

2007

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Scientists talk andmeasure proximity seeking and avoidance, but what of the prior state of proximity sensing? As a statement of its basic value, consider that some of the most venerable ideas in behavior circle around but reliably boomerang back to approach-avoidance as a basic rule (Schneirla, 1957).In this review, we recount the steps we are taking toward creating a new framework for the study of social Umwelten in birds. As this is only a beginning, we keep a strong focus on the initial stages involved in breaking away from conventional methods and ideas.…”

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The presumption of sociality: Social learning in diverse contexts in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater).

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West²,

White³

2002

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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Data are presented on social and vocal learning in cowbirds (Molothrus ater) housed in large aviaries and given more degrees of freedom than in conventional experimental studies. The studies show that social and vocal outcomes are facultative responses to social contexts. Several findings are reviewed: First, cowbirds quickly self-organize into groups by age and sex; second, opportunities to interact across age and sex do exist and affect courtship competence; third, female cowbirds organize themselves differently in the presence and absence of male competition; and fourth, young, naive cowbirds show rapid and differential sensitivity to group dynamics. Taken as a whole, the data show that social Umwelten are dynamic, developmental ecologies.Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling the mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a new beginning for the chosen.-Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal SummerTerra firma provides humans with sure footing but sometimes narrow thinking about the sensory world of other inhabitants. The air-ground complex is one of myriad environments, many neither terra nor firma. Navigating and exploring underwater or underground as many animals do has also been intimidating for humans but is now yielding to newer technology and the continued persistence of those humans convinced of the value of knowing other worlds.Our goal here is to examine a broader contextual concept: How does a social world fit with a self-world? Is a social world merely the sum of self-worlds? Although most scientists agree that animals' sensory systems can be profitably analyzed by looking at animals one by one, scientists show less consensus that animals' perceptual systems, that is, how animals explore, respond, and categorize their sensory worlds, are uninfluenced by animals around them (Gibson, 1966). We propose that the social context matters even at basic levels of sensation and perception: Animals perceive compounded arrays of stimulation, and the salience of the Andrew P, King, Meredith J. West, and David J. White, Department of Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington.We thank the Howard Hughes Foundation, the Indiana University Department of Psychology, the Animal Behavior Program at the National Science Foundation, the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program at the National Science Foundation, and the National Science and Engi- parts depends on what else the animal is experiencing. To introduce our ideas means starting where Von Uexkull and other ethologists began, attempting to describe the compounded experiences animals may see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and feel (Von Uexkull, 1934/1957. But in this article, we address sensory pickup of social stimulation. A cross-modal dimension we stress is proximity, that is, being near to another animal. For example, the "sensation" dimension to which we refer is not seismic, as it might be for a rodent underground, but is the proximal "sens...

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“…Algumas dessas teorias são denominadas: visão sistêmica (developmental system view, segundo Gottlieb, 1997), visão transicional (Dewey, & Bentley, 1949), visão contextual (Lerner, & Kaufman, 1985), visão interativa (Johnston, 1987), visão socioecológica-individual (Valsiner, 1987), epigenética comportamental (Kuo, 1967), e epigenética probabilística (Gottlieb, 1997) -(para mais detalhes, ver Gottlieb, 1997). Outros autores também estão envolvidos nesses esforços -como Schneirla (1966), Schneider (2003) e Lickliter (2007. Apesar da diversidade teórica, essas propostas são compatíveis e complementares.…”

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Behavioral Development and Comparative Psychology

Cited by 203 publications

References 35 publications

The innate and the acquired: Useful clusters or a residual distinction from folk biology?

The innate and the acquired: Useful clusters or a residual distinction from folk biology?

The presumption of sociality: Social learning in diverse contexts in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater).

Reflexões sobre o estudo do desenvolvimento na perspectiva da análise do comportamento

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