{"id":8232,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/instinct_-2\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:28","slug":"instinct_-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/instinct_-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Instinct (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An innate tendency to behave in a particular way that does not depend on particular learning experiences for its development and which serves important adaptive functions across species and developmental time frames. &nbsp;An example of an instinctive behaviour is a fixed action pattern (movements once started that are performed in a stereotyped way, unaffected by external stimulation). &nbsp;Compare with contrasting definition provided in Instinct (1). &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"ethology\">Ethology<\/a>, <a href=\"fixed_action_pattern_-fap-\">Fixed action pattern (FAP)<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-1-\">Innate (1)<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-2-\">Innate (2)<\/a>, <a href=\"innate_-3-\">Innate (3)<\/a>, <a href=\"instinct_-1-\">Instinct (1)<\/a>, Intrapsychic conflict, Nativism<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innate tendency to behave in a particular way that does not depend on particular learning experiences for its development and which serves important adaptive functions across species and developmental time frames. &nbsp;An example of an instinctive behaviour is a fixed action pattern (movements once started that are performed in a stereotyped way, unaffected by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/instinct_-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instinct (2)&#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-8232","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\/8232","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=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}