{"id":7972,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fixed_action_pattern_-fap\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:39","slug":"fixed_action_pattern_-fap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fixed_action_pattern_-fap\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed action pattern (FAP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ethology, a stereotyped behavior pattern, the form of which is determined by a specific pattern of impulses generated in the central nervous system, and which is relatively uninfluenced by learning. &nbsp;A vacuum activity is the occurrence of a FAP in the apparent absence of its releaser or sign stimulus. &nbsp;In contemporary ethology, the term tends to be replaced by &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.unl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&amp;context=bioscibehavior&amp;sei-redir=1&amp;referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dmodal%2520action%2520pattern%2520definition%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D4%26ved%3D0CF4QFjAD%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdigitalcommons.unl.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1052%2526context%253Dbioscibehavior%26ei%3Drq0EUL2WI4zfsgbfkfHGBg%26usg%3DAFQjCNFLnFrA-NylUv052I7VSwVObzDwoA#search=%22modal%20action%20pattern%20definition%22\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.unl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&amp;context=bioscibehavior&amp;sei-redir=1&amp;referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dmodal%2520action%2520pattern%2520definition%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D4%26ved%3D0CF4QFjAD%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdigitalcommons.unl.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1052%2526context%253Dbioscibehavior%26ei%3Drq0EUL2WI4zfsgbfkfHGBg%26usg%3DAFQjCNFLnFrA-NylUv052I7VSwVObzDwoA#search=%22modal%20action%20pattern%20definition%22?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modal action patterns<\/a>&#8216; because of inevitable individual variations in behavior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"dustbathing\">Dustbathing<\/a>, <a href=\"ethology\">Ethology<\/a>, <a href=\"infantile_responses\">Infantile responses<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-1-\">Innate (1)<\/a>, Innate releasing mechanism, <a href=\"instinct_-1-\">Instinct (1)<\/a>, <a href=\"instinct_-2-\">Instinct (2)<\/a>, <a href=\"preyer-tracy_hypothesis_of_autogeneous_motility\">Preyer-Tracy hypothesis of autogeneous motility<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ethology, a stereotyped behavior pattern, the form of which is determined by a specific pattern of impulses generated in the central nervous system, and which is relatively uninfluenced by learning. &nbsp;A vacuum activity is the occurrence of a FAP in the apparent absence of its releaser or sign stimulus. &nbsp;In contemporary ethology, the term &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fixed_action_pattern_-fap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fixed action pattern (FAP)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}