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Animal Behavior Flashcards

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Homeostasis

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The maitenence of constant internal balance

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Stimulus

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Type of info that has potential to make an organism change its behavior

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Kinesis

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Increase in random movement

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Taxis

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Movement in a particular motion

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Photo, chemo, geo, thigmo

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Light
Chemical
Gravity
Touch

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Internal and external stimuli react to…

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Trigger specific behaviors

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Instinct

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A complex inborn behavior

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Innate

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Performed correctly the first time

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Innate behaviors are triggered by a…

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Releaser

Touch, sight, sound, scent

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Habitation

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When an animal learns to ignored a repeated stimulus

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Imprinting

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A rapid & irreversable learning process

Konrad lorenz and baby geese

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Assosiative learning

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A specific action is associated w consequences

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Conditioning

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One type of associative learning

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Classical conditioning

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Previously neutral stimulus associated with behavior triggered by diff. Stimulus

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Operate conditioning

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Behavior increased or decreased by positive or negative reinforcement

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Survivorship

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of individuals that survive from one year to the next

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Territoriality

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Control of a specific area (territory) by one or more individuals of an animal species

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Optimal foraging

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Natural selection should favor behaviors that get animals the most, or optimal amount of calories for the cost

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Social Behavior benefits

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Improved foraging
Assist for newborns sick and elderly
Reduced chance of predetation

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Social behavior costs

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Increased visibility
Increased competition
Limited resources

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Cooperation

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Lionesses hunt in a pack and share the kill

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Reciprocity

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Involves behaviors in which individuals help other group members w/ expectations that they will help in return
(Babysitting)

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Altruism

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Kind of behavior in which an animal reduces ifs own fitness to help other members of its social group

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Eusocial

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Live in large groups made up of many individuals, most are members of nonreproductive castes such as workers or soldiers
(Bees)

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Cognition

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Mental process of knowing through perception or reasoning

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Insight

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Solve a problem mentally without repeated trial and error

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Cultural behavior

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Spread through a population by learning rather than selection

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