Course code

PSP6043.LT

old course code

PSP6043

Course title in Estonian

Etoloogia

Course title in English

Ethology

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

assessment

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Introduce the universal and species-specific biological bases of behavior

Brief description of the course

Fundamentals of etology. Animal behavior as a biological system. Behavior, its specifics according to species, ecology and semiotics. Living environment as an interactive context. The functions and forms of the nervous and the endocrine system. Memory, emotions, aggressiveness, thinking, attention. Territoriality and sociality. Instincts. Self-defense, nutrition, comfort behavior, sexual behavior, caring for offspring. Own and strangers. Search and recognition. Human etology. Culture as a characteristic of species. Dialogue options.
The student independently works through the required reading and observes the behavior of one freely chosen animal and analyzes this based on the acquired theoretical knowledge.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to connect and unterstands spesifics of human and animal species and their behavior.

Teacher

Aleksei Turovski

Study programmes containing that course

Psychology (PSPSB/15.LT)
Psychology (PSPSB/14.LT)
Psychology (PSPSB/13.LT)
Psychology (PSPSB/12.LT)
Biology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLBB/11.LT)
Psychology (PSPSB/11.LT)
Biology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLBB/10.LT)
Psychology (PSPSB/10.LT)
Psychology (PSPSB/10N.LT)
Biology (with Minor Field of Study) (MLBB/09.LT)
Psychology (PSPSB/00.LT)