Sentence examples for instinctive behaviours from inspiring English sources

According to the alternative Aristotelian conception of the mind, imprinted genes may affect the development instinctive behaviours and verbal and nonverbal behaviours growing out of instincts as the result of maturation and learning.

The most striking similarities between the dog and the wolf are their instinctive behaviours of play, dominance and submission, scent marking, and the females' care for their young.

Instinctive behaviours can be described as a concatenated series of movements.

For the learnt extensions of instinctive behaviours are not based on knowledge.

However, since instinctive behaviours are displayed stereotypically and without hesitation, this showed to Weismann that they are at first performed without reasoning (cf. Smit 2010b).

It is thought these instinctive behaviours of a newborn are adaptive behaviours since they evoke maternal care (for a critical discussion, see Blumberg and Sokoloff 2001).

These are a theoretical minimum rather than an observed functional arrangement of cells in the body of an animal (see instinct: Varieties of instinctive behaviour).

Particular responses in animals do not readily lend themselves to identification in highly evolved forms because learned behaviour patterns obscure the underlying unlearned behaviour; in addition, stereotyped responses provide the building blocks of instinctive behaviour, the complexity of which may obscure the integral parts (see instinct).

Built up into complex patterns of many coordinated muscular actions, reflexes form the basis of much instinctive behaviour in animals.

It comes to us from our ancestors, ie from the people whose instinctive behaviour gave them a better chance to survive and reproduce.

In the domestic environment, this normal, instinctive behaviour often still occurs, to the consternation of some owners who fear that their cat may have rabies, a brain tumour, or an unstable personality.