science branches
Branch of biology conceded with animal behavior
Ethology
First to have a systematic theory of animal evolution
Lamarck
What is a complex behavior that is typically initiated by a stimulus but continues until finish?
Fixed action pattern
Considered the father of biology and psychology
Aristotle
Area of psychology concerned with animal behavior.
comparative psychology
Also discovered the same evolutionary principles that Darwin discovered at about the same time
Alfred Russel Wallace
This classifies and names organisms
Taxonomy
He helped rejuvenate anatomy and physiology by preforming dissections on organisms (including humans) both alive and dead.
Adreas Vesalius
Branch of biology that focuses on the classification and physical aspects of organisms.
zoology
Coined the term natural selection
Charles Darwin
Puts humans at the center of everything and puts humans superior to other organisms.
Anthropocentric
Still accepted the mind-body dualism but encouraged others to think of animals as biological machines whose behavior could be explained by mechanical principles.
Rene Descartes
Deals with the interactions of organisms with each other and their physical surroundings
behavioral ecology
Wrote one of the earliest textbooks on animal behavior
C.Lloyd Morgan
Putting human characteristics to animals
anthropomorphizing
Consolidated the classification system started by others into what we still use today. "Taxonomy"
Carl Linne
Branch of biology that focuses on the roots of social behaviors of organisms.
sociobiology
Insisted on studying humans and animals with the same methods and resisted any speculation on "the mind"
John B Watson
The tendency of an organism (usually a bird) to attach themselves to a moving object after birth.
Imprinting
This scientist devised a system of classifying organisms by latin terms: Genes, Species, etc
Aristotle