CLASSIC ETHOLOGY REAPPRAISED

From: Behavior and Philosophy | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: ¡ de SÃ -Nogueira Saraiva, Rodrigo | Copyright information

ABSTRACT: I analyze the theoretical tenets of early ethology and the criticisms leveled against it from comparative psychology. Early ethology had a clear research object, the study of behavioral adaptedness. Adaptedness was explained by the functional rules and programs that underlie the relation between a given organism and its natural environment (the function cycle). This research object was lost during the redefinition of ethology that took place after the second World War, a redefinitio...

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