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fixed action pattern

noun

, Ethology.
  1. a highly stereotyped pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a particular species.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fixed action pattern1

Said to be a translation of German Erbkoordination, term used by Konrad Lorenz
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Example Sentences

Yoon and Tennie say that contagious yawning could be due to the activation of a fixed action pattern.

Minimally, this evidence rejects the simplest explanation for contagious yawning: the fixed action pattern.

This is called a fixed action pattern.

It means that contagious yawning is NOT just the result of a fixed action pattern triggered when you see someone else yawn.

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