| 单词 | action pattern |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaction pattern action pattern n. Psychology and Zoology a behaviour or sequence of behaviours elicited in response to a particular stimulus or situation; spec. (more fully fixed action pattern, modal action pattern) a rigid sequence of such behaviours which is innate, highly stimulus-dependent, and runs to completion once elicited. ΚΠ 1920 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 14 420 This conforms..to the further use of a similar term ‘action pattern’ by a psychophysiologist like W. B. Cannon. 1953 Behaviour 6 22 In the amphibia it [sc. swimming] approximates to a ‘fixed action pattern’. 1982 R. Hinde Ethology (1986) ii. §iii. 44 Barlow (1977) pointed out that close measurement reveals some variability in even the most apparently stereotyped movements, and suggested that the term [fixed action pattern] be replaced by ‘modal action pattern.’ 2007 J. L. Gould & C. G. Gould Animal Architects i. 7 Lorenz and Tinbergen called the behavior that this presumed circuit produced a fixed-action pattern; today it is more often called a motor program. < as lemmas |
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