Their curiosity and learning abilities will be enhanced from practice and they are also livelier and healthier.ġ. On the other hand, animals that are kept as pets at home (if they are well taken care of) and those that live in the wild will have plenty of opportunities to interact with others and their environments. This may be very much like a child who does not go to school to interact with other children and who may therefore lose the interest or desire to learn. This would have suppressed their curiosity and learning abilities. We all know that animals feel pain and care for their newborn, but we do not know if these acts are done out of emotion or instinct.Īnimals that are domesticated at home, lab specimens, animals in our zoos and animals found in the wild may all respond differently in a certain environment.Īnimals that are caged up in a zoo or a laboratory will not have much opportunity to interact with people and the outside world. Secondly, the study came up with the operant conditioning theory that is in use till now.Scientists still disagree if animals have emotions like we humans do. the study set a standard except facts are collected on an issue and tested, conclusions earlier made on an issue is not acceptable. Also, the efficacy of Skinner's methodologies to animal and human beings' behavioural development, its' shortfalls and position in the field of human development generally shall be explained. Skinner through his numerous experiments. Thus, the paper shall explore the instrumentality of moulding behaviour as developed by B. It is on this basis that this paper is interested in exploring the behavioural theory of personality. However, persistent inquiry into personality began to unveil the fact that our behaviour could be learned and unlearned. That, the causes, motives, and drives – the forces that direct our development and behavior were innate. The person you see, relate, work, and even eat together was capable of displaying unimaginable behaviour at different fora. In the course of the inquisition, it was discovered that personality was a concoction of mysteries within the persona. The increasing sophistication of man and his curiosity to unravel what is behind or hidden in the persona warranted several approaches into the study of personality.
Finally, we discuss useful technological skills that may allow comparative psychologists to take automation into their own hands and design equipment specific to their species and research topic. We also review affordable alternatives to commercial equipment that have been designed by behavioral scientists. We first review recent trends in automated comparative psychology research, and then relate this to a second review on currently available automated research equipment.
However, there are alternatives to commercial equipment, as some behavioral scientists have made available their own species-flexible, low-cost research equipment. One factor contributing to this species-restriction may be the availability of automated research equipment, as most commercial research equipment is designed for rodents, and many researchers lack the skills required to create their own automated equipment. In comparative psychology, use of automated techniques are often restricted to popular model organisms of fields such as behavior analysis and behavioral neuroscience. Automated research promotes refinements in measurement, greater experimental control, longer durations of data collection, reduction of observer fatigue, and may permit new types of research to be conducted. Behavioral research is often enhanced by automated techniques, where experimental parameters and detection of behavior are controlled by electromechanical systems.
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