Animal Behavior

Question 1

What are Fixed Action Patterns

Answer 1

Is a innate behavior continued to completion no matter how useless
are triggered by sign stimuli, when sign stimuli are exchanged between animals they are called releasers

Question 2

What are the three types of learning behaviors

Answer 2

Habituation- learn to ignore stimuli

Associative learning- may be classical conditioning(linking 2 stimuli) or operant conditioning(trial and error)

Imprinting- occurs during a critical period in the early life and is irreversible for the length of that period

Question 3

State and define the 5 types of social behaviors

Answer 3

Cooperation- work together

Agonistic- aggressive, used to settle disputes between individuals

Dominance hierarchies- each animal threatens the animals beneath it in a pecking order

Territoriality- is the area an organism defends from other

Altruism- reduces an individual’s sexual fitness but increases the fitness of the group