Exploration of any ethological strategy which plays an important role in decision making and opening a gateway that an organization travels into the economical points is the first way for start up hypothesizing and then description of the relevant concepts. Actually for explanation of a model of the study it is needed to explore and describe respective concepts what are the variables of a study. Some of the time it is very difficult to point some strategies in ethology but I think maybe you can find or guess any "behavioral strategies".
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Ethological strategies for defence in animals and humans are expressed as either aggression or flight behaviour. Aggression is employed by animals during intraspecific competition for resources, mate, territory and acquiring and maintaining social status. It also disperses individuals throughout the biotope. Flight behaviour is used to avoid a source of danger or harm, has both dynamic arid static forms, is phylogenetically very old and takes precedence over all other activities including social behaviour. Animals exposed to inescapable threats or attacks exhibit a characteristic defensive strategy, arrested flight, which consists of gaze-avoidance or cut-offs, cryptic postures such as immobility and covert surveillance of their surroundings. Arrested flight also occurs in social encounters when submission fails to reduce attacks, and in prey animals when escape from a predator is hampered. Ethological studies show that during interviews, depressed patients exhibit a pattern of non-verbal behaviour having all the hallmarks of arrested flight. Cut-off behaviour, which seeks to reduce the input of flight-evoking stimuli is especially evident in these patients but takes an extreme form, i.e. eye closure, in the gaze-profiles of paranoid patients. It is proposed that cut-offs always denote the presence of incipient flight and that arrested flight is a 'last measure' defensive strategy in response to inescapable proximal threat. It can arise in humans whenever their escape routes are hampered and characterizes the behaviour of patients suffering from depression. As in animals, different pathways may lead to arrested flight in humans. In humans, defensive mechanisms also operate at the mental level through putative ego defences, the psychological function of which is to preserve self-esteem by hindering the access of disturbing emotional material into awareness. It is suggested that they function ethologically as mental cut-offs analogous to the behavioural cut-offs in animals.
Ignoring the behavior (extinction) is often used when the behavior is used for attention, and is mild or not threatening. Redirection, often supported with visuals, may involve redirection to an appropriate behavior or response and is often paired with positive strategies.
Dear Leonidas and Noor Edan,
So many thanks for your kind efforts in this discussion which are very valuable. Let us summarize the above mentioned issue as follows:
As I have found the ethology is started by study in the animal behavior and it can go on human behavior.
In this way the most keywords which we can find in the ethological theories are such as:
By looking at the behavioral strategies it could be adapted by BCG's matrix strategies as follows:
Also it could have been adapted by Freeman's Matrix as follows:
Trusting these meets with your approval and should have any further information I will be very glad to read them.
Looking forward to hearing from you ASAP
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