Marga Vicedo
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226020556
- eISBN:
- 9780226020693
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226020693.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
During the 1950s and 1960s, researchers in Europe and the United States showed the difficulties inherent in the original ethological goal of studying animal behavior by first identifying an animal's ...
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During the 1950s and 1960s, researchers in Europe and the United States showed the difficulties inherent in the original ethological goal of studying animal behavior by first identifying an animal's instincts. This chapter reviews some of their major objections. Daniel Lehrman criticized the explanatory value of the concept of instinct and the impossibility of isolating innate behavior with deprivation experiments. Comparative psychologists Frank Beach, T. C. Schneirla, and Jay Rosenblatt stressed that isolation experiments cannot separate innate and learned behaviors. British animal researcher Robert Hinde exposed the weaknesses in Konrad Lorenz's hydraulic model of instinctual energy and the concept of drive.Less
During the 1950s and 1960s, researchers in Europe and the United States showed the difficulties inherent in the original ethological goal of studying animal behavior by first identifying an animal's instincts. This chapter reviews some of their major objections. Daniel Lehrman criticized the explanatory value of the concept of instinct and the impossibility of isolating innate behavior with deprivation experiments. Comparative psychologists Frank Beach, T. C. Schneirla, and Jay Rosenblatt stressed that isolation experiments cannot separate innate and learned behaviors. British animal researcher Robert Hinde exposed the weaknesses in Konrad Lorenz's hydraulic model of instinctual energy and the concept of drive.
