Cracow, Poland

Animal Behavior and Psychology

Bachelor's
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⇑Animal Behavior and Psychology at UAFM

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: agriculture, forestry and fishery, veterinary
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: en.uafm.edu.pl/

⇑Test: Is Animal Behavior and Psychology the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Your dog starts barking at the postman every time he walks past. What do you think?

2. Can you watch animals patiently for a long time – birds in the park, say, or what a cat gets up to?

3. How do you feel about biology and the sciences at school?

4. A friend says their cat knocks things off the table out of revenge. What do you think?

5. Classes, reading and discussions are in English, and your group includes people from different countries with different attitudes to animals. How do you feel about that?

6. Do you think animal welfare matters in research on animal behaviour?

7. Are you curious about what animal behaviour can tell us about people – emotions, learning or social bonds?

8. Have you ever helped out at an animal shelter, stables, a vet’s or with dog training?

9. You’re observing a herd of goats on a farm. How do you record what you see?

10. What motivates you most to study Animal Behavior and Psychology?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The study of animals is called zoology.
Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.
Psychology
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
Herman Ebbinghaus, cited in: Edwin Boring (1929) A History of Experimental Psychology p. ix
Psychology
[Modern psychology] appears as the sickly offspring of average common sense when it is taken as what it professes to be—a science of the inner life. The entire achievements of the so-called science in this respect is outweighed by a single page of Goethe’s or of Jean Paul’s psychology; and it is impossible to evade the bitter truth which Novalis already has summed up, when he says that so-called psychology is one of those idols which have usurped the place in the sanctuary where true images of the gods should stand.
Ludwig Klages, The Science of Character, W. Johnston, trans., p. 16
Psychology
The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.
"But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …"
"But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, chapter 17
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