Advanced Animal Behavior

Photograph of a hamster.

Hamster in lab during a behavior test. (Image courtesy of Schneider Laboratory, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.)

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MIT Course Number

9.201

As Taught In

Spring 2000

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Highlights

This course is designed to give graduate students hands-on training in animal behavior. Most universities train their students to study animals in boxes; this course helps future researchers study animals and their behaviors independent of their surroundings and how their surroundings impact their behavior. There is an extensive reading list that provides students with a thorough grounding in the field of animal behavior. There are also final exam questions to help students understand the breadth as well as the depth of the course.

Course Description

The course includes survey and special topics designed for graduate students in the brain and cognitive sciences. It emphasizes ethological studies of natural behavior patterns and their analysis in laboratory work, with contributions from field biology (mammology, primatology), sociobiology, and comparative psychology. It stresses mammalian behavior but also includes major contributions from studies of other vertebrates and of invertebrates. It covers some applications of animal-behavior knowledge to neuropsychology and behavioral pharmacology.

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Gerald Schneider. 9.201 Advanced Animal Behavior. Spring 2000. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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