The Study of Instinct¶
Tinbergen, N. (1951). The Study of Instinct. Clarendon Press.
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Primes¶
- Supernormal Stimulus
- In classical ethology it is the founding demonstration: geese rolling an artificially-large fake egg in preference to their own, and gull chicks pecking harder at an exaggerated artificial bill-spot than at a real parental bill.
This sourceFounding ethological account of supernormal stimuli, including the herring-gull-chick begging-peck response to an exaggerated red-marked rod and the goose retrieving an oversized artificial egg — the prime's canonical experiments.
- In classical ethology it is the founding demonstration: geese rolling an artificially-large fake egg in preference to their own, and gull chicks pecking harder at an exaggerated artificial bill-spot than at a real parental bill.
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