Animal Behavior Flashcards
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Ethology
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The study of behavior and its relationship to its evolutionary origin
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Karl von Frisch
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-Studied honeybee communication - bee waggle dance
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Konrad Lorenz
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Imprinting
Geese experiment
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Niko Tinbergen
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Fixed action pattern
Dog, food experiment
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Fixed Action Pattern (FAP)
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- Innate, highly stereotypical behavior that continues no matter what
- initiated by sign stimuli
- ex/ Sickleback fish (would attack red belly)
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Releasers
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Sign stimuli exchanged between members of the same species
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Learning
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- Responses of the organism are modified as a result of experience
- tied to the length of life and brain complexity
- Habituation, Associative Learning, imprinting
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Habituation
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- Simplest forms of learning
- Animal comes to ignore a persistent stimulus
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Associative Learning
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- 1 stimulus becomes linked to another through experience
- Classical & operant conditioning
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Classical Conditioning
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-Ivan Pavlov(dogs associate bell with food)
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Ivan Palov
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Classical Conditioning
Dogs
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Operant Conditioning
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- Trial and error learning
- Learns to associate one of its own behaviors with a reward/punishment and then repeats or avoids that behavior
- Animal training
- B.F. Skinner (Rat and lever)
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B.F. Skinner
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- Operant Conditioning experiment
- Rat and lever and food
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Imprinting
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- Occurs during a sensitive or critical period in early life and is irreversible for that period
- MOther-offspring bonding
- Konrad Lorenz(geese)
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Social Behaviors
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Cooperation, agaonistic, dominance hierarchies, territoriality, altruism
