10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VACUUM ACTIVITY»
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vacuum activity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vacuum activity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Foundations of Ethology
So our definition of what we call a "vacuum activity" remains, necessarily, inexact.
Vacuum activities are most striking when they involve motor patterns which,
under normal circumstances, are directed at an object. I shall never forget the ...
2
Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries
Lees (1949) has cited the example of the cyclical colony activities of the ant
Eciton hamaium (Schneirla, 1938) as an example of "something akin to 'vacuum
activity.' " Colonies of this army ant pass regularly through statary and nomadic ...
Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer, Animal Behavior Society, 1996
3
Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
Notes: Lorenz (1981, 127) indicates that “vacuum activity” cannot be exactly
defined. Morris and Moynihan (1953 in Heymer 1977) suggest that “vacuum
activity” be replaced with “overflow activity” because one cannot be certain that
no ...
One strategy is to attempt to disrupt the vacuum's activity somehow, and to look
for an accompanying change in energy. The simplest such experiment was
suggested in 1948 by the Dutch physicist, Hendrik Casimir. Suppose two flat
metal ...
5
Notes on the Elements of Behavioral Science
VACUUM ACTIVITY Vacuum activity is a behavior that occurs spontaneously in
the absence of an eliciting stimulus. Lorenz coined the term when he saw his
tame starling, which always lived in a large room in his home and was fed all its
life ...
Doris Zumpe, Richard P. Michael, 2001
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The Natural Science of the Human Species: An Introduction to ...
This is true both with respect to drives and appetite on the subjective
psychological side and with respect to threshold lowering and the eventual
eruption of the motor pattern as a vacuum activity on the objective physiological
side. In this case ...
Konrad Lorenz, Agnes von Cranach, 1997
7
Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution
Lees (1949) has cited the example of the cyclical colony activities of the ant
Eciton hamatum (Schneirla 1938) as an example of "something akin to 'vacuum
activity.'" Colonies of this army ant pass regularly through statary and nomadic
phases ...
Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, Russell D. Gray, 2003
Before you get into the descriptions of the individual classifications, let's discuss a
couple of subjects that will affect the classification. YACUUM ACTIVITY Vacuum
Activity is a response in the absence of the stimulus that usually produces it.
9
Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult
of carelessness, of attributing to a pair of propositions a deductive-logical relation
which they simply do not possess, is therefore a case of vacuum-activity in
Lorenz's sense.14 The commonest case of vacuum-activity is that in which a dog,
...
10
Motivation: Theory, Research, and Application
Classical ethologists have argued that both displacement and vacuum activity
indicate the presence of an energy buildup within the organism. Antagonists of
the energy concept argue that displacement and vacuum activity can be
explained ...
Herbert Petri, John Govern, 2012
