Question

Ethological Theory Describe

Describe application to Middle and Late Childhood. Describe

Describe application to Adolescence.

Describe application to Early Adulthood.

Describe application to Middle Adulthood.

Describe application to Late Adulthood.

Answer 1

Answer.

Ethology is the scientific study of behavior and development in evolutionary perspective. Based on the principles of natural selection and adaptation, It sets out to identify behavior patterns that have had, and may continue to have, significant impact on the survival of a species. Within psychology, the ethnological perspective has shaped an understanding of age related changes ranging from the development of crucial survival reflexes like sucking in infancy to the development of attachment between the mother and the newborn infant as a crucial part of survival and healthy physical and emotional development.

Ethology emphasised that behavior was a biological phenomenon, determined by the organism's genotype. Researchers like Lorenz used cross-species comparisons to highlight that much animal behavior like imprinting in ducklings, or human baby’s clinging to their mothers as attachment responses were in fact instinctive and they endured the safety and survival of the next generation.