Animal Behaviour (Psychology Of Animals) 100 Hours Certificate Course
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Animal Behaviour (Psychology of Animals) course online. What makes animals tick? Learn through this Home Study Animal Behaviour course. Understanding your Animals' (pets) Behaviour is the key to a happy relationship.
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Determine the set elements that influence animal behaviours
Depict how genes affect different animal reactions
Explain how animals respond to different stimuli
Show what environmental elements cause what types of behaviours in different animals
State how social influences in animals affect the ways they behave with regards to aggresiveness, play, sexual behaviour and others
Depict how animals adapt and learn
Discuss the various effects handlling techniques have on the psychology of an animal
Determine what constitutes as unusual or abnormal behaviour in animals (e.g psychotic, neurotic) and the different methods used to make animals independent from humans
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Subjects
- Psychology
- Animal Behaviour
Course programme
There are 8 lessons:
- Introduction: Influences and motivation.
- What is behaviour
- Causes of behaviour (eg. genetics, learning, external and internal influences)
- Reactive, active and cognitive behaviour
- Conditioning
- Genetics and Behaviour.
- Understanding biology
- Natural selection
- Genetic variation
- Development of behaviour
- Behavioural genetics
- Animal Perception and Behaviour.
- How animals perceive things
- What stimulates them and how do those stimuli function
- Instinct
- Neural control
- Sensory processes, sight, sound, hearing etc.
- Behaviour and the Environment.
- Coordination
- Orientation
- Homeostasis
- Acclimatisation
- Circadian rhythms
- Biological clocks
- Reproductive cycles etc.
- Social Behaviour.
- Animal Societies
- Aggression
- Social constraints
- Social order
- Play
- Biological clocks
- Communication
- Instinct and Learning.
- Conditioning and learning
- Extinction and habituation
- Instrumental learning
- Reinforcement
- Operant behaviour
- Biological and cognitive aspects of learning
- Handling Animals.
- Psychological affects of different handling techniques
- Training animals (horses, cats, dogs, etc).
- The student has a choice of which types of animals to focus on, though a variety will still be covered.
- Behavioural Problems.
- Abnormal behaviour (eg. Psychotic, neurotic);
- Domestication of animals
- Reducing human contact
- Reducing human dependence
Animal Behaviour (Psychology Of Animals) 100 Hours Certificate Course