Lecture Schedule

List of Lectures

Introduction and Historical perspective

• Lecture: Introduction to the Study of Animal Behavior
• Lecture: Aims of Behavioral Research
• Lecture: Historical Perspective - Behaviorism
• Lecture: Historical Perspective - Ethology
• Lecture: Historical Perspective - NeuroEthology, Sociobiology, Behavioral Ecology
• Lecture: Learning and Memory
• Exercise: "The Shaping Game" and Animal Training
• Lecture: Bird Song and Bird Song Learning

• Lecture: Genetics and Behavior
• Exercise: Neuronal Physiology and Ion Games
• Lecture: Signals and Physics - Acoustics
• Lecture: Sensory Channels
• Lecture: Sensory Processing, and Review: Cellular Mechanisms, Synapes
• Lecture: Visual Processing
• Film: Milestones in the Study of Animal Behavior - Jane Goodall
• Lecture: Neural Orchestration of Behavior
• Lecture: Behavioral Endocrinology

• Lecture: Biological Rhythms and its Hormonal Control
• Lecture: Habitat Use
• Lecture: Mechanisms of Orientation, Navigation, Migration
• Lecture: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and Lecture: Dispersal and Inbreeding
• Lecture: Natural Selection
• Dr. Eileen Underwood "Agonistic Behavior in Bearded Dragons"
• Lecture: Sexual Selection
• Lecture: Mating Systems
• Film: The Nature of Sex: A Time and Place
• Lecture: Fossil Behavior and Evolution and Behavior

Ultimate Mechanisms in Behavior and Behavioral Ecology

• Lecture: Altruism
• Lecture: Eusociality
• Film: Examples of Conflict and Cooperation
• Lecture: Dr. Dan Wiegmann Optimality Theory and Game Theory
• Lecture: Game Theory
• Lecture: Hawks and Doves and Agonistic Behavior
• Film: Examples of Agonistic Interactions among Conspecifics
• Dr. Anne Gordon "Evolutionary Psychology"
• Lecture: Habitat Use
• Lecture: Human Sociobiology, Human Ethology
• Lecture:

• Dr. Steve Vessey "Field studies on Primates in Puerto Rico"
• Lecture: Dr. Dan Wiegmann Game Theory and Agonistic Behavior
• Lecture: Aggression
• Lecture: Behavioral Development
• Film: The Brain: Rhythms and Drives
• Film: Examples of Animal Orientation and Navigation
• Film: Examples of Courtship Behavior
• Lecture: Ritualization and the Evolution of Displays
• Lecture: Ethical Issues in Behavioral Research
• Film: Diversity of Animal Behavior
• Film: Examples of Animal Orientation and Navigation
• Film: Examples of Animal Communication
• Lecture: Introduction to Neuroscience - History of Psychiatry
• Lecture: Sensory Receptors