Animal Behavior (Reversed)

Question 1

Study of how animals behave

Answer 1

What is ethology?

Question 2

1. What stimulus elicits a behavior and what physiological mechanisms mediate a response?2. How does the animals experiences during development influence the response?3. How does the behavior aid survival and reproduction?4. What is the behaviors evolutionary basis?

Answer 2

Ethology serves to answers what 4 questions?

Question 3

Behavioral Ecology

Answer 3

The study of the ecological and evolutionary basis of behavior is called?

Question 4

immediate causality (how it happens)

Answer 4

Proximate cause focuses on what?

Question 5

the bigger picture (why it is evolutionarily beneficial)

Answer 5

Ultimate cause focuses on what?

Question 6

change in activity due to a stimulus

Answer 6

Define kinesis

Question 7

orientation towards or away from a stimulus

Answer 7

Define taxis

Question 8

a long distance change of locations done at regular intervals

Answer 8

Define migration

Question 9

daily cycles (rest, eating, etc), usually regulated by light and dark

Answer 9

What are circadian rhythms?

Question 10

yearly cycles usually linked to seasons

Answer 10

What are circannual rhythms?

Question 11

the adrenal gland

Answer 11

Where is cortisol released?

Question 12

visually, chemical, or auditory

Answer 12

List ways animals use signaling

Question 13

fixed behaviors that all the animals in a population are born with (instinct)

Answer 13

Define innate behaviors

Question 14

a sequence of innate behaviors initiated bya stimulus.

Answer 14

Define fixed action pattern

Question 15

a reduction or loss of reaction to a stimuli

Answer 15

Define habituation

Question 16

a life long reaction or bond to an object or individual created at a young age

Answer 16

Define imprinting

Question 17

able to remember the structures in an environment (using landmarks)

Answer 17

Define spatial learning

Question 18

a memorized mental representation (map) of an environment

Answer 18

Define cognitive maps

Question 19

the ability to connect two environmental factors as being related (color and taste)

Answer 19

Define associative learning

Question 20

classical and operant learning

Answer 20

What are the two types of associative learning?

Question 21

a stimulus elicits a response

Answer 21

Define classical conditioning

Question 22

ringing a dinner bell before dinner causes the dog to salivate without food being present

Answer 22

Desribe Povlov’s dog

Question 23

an animal connects his behavior with a good or bad response (trial and error)

Answer 23

Define operant conditioning

Question 24

the ability to think, reason and process information

Answer 24

Define cognition

Question 25

activities and strategies an animal uses for survival

Answer 25

Define foraging

Question 26

benefits should outweigh costs

Answer 26

optimal foraging model

Question 27

The decision to fight or run is also measured by risk and reward (benefits should out weight costs)

Answer 27

What is fight or flight

Question 28

no mating bonds (one night stands)

Answer 28

Define promiscuous

Question 29

strong bond forms one male one female for a long period (relationship goals)

Answer 29

Define monogamous

Question 30

one sex mates with others (open marriage)

Answer 30

Define polygamous

Question 31

the males mate with many females (f—boy)

Answer 31

Define polygyny

Question 32

the females mate with many males (thots)

Answer 32

Define polyandry

Question 33

Competition to gain access to a resource

Answer 33

Define antagonistic behavior

Question 34

Evaluates the success of strategies used when the strategies depend on other strategies (paper, rock, scissors.)

Answer 34

Define game theory

Question 35

Orange aggressive, blue small territory, yellow sneaky

Answer 35

Give an example of the game theory

Question 36

animals reduces their individual fitness to increase the population fitness (one for all)

Answer 36

Define altruism

Question 37

total of an individual getting their genes into the next generation through their own offspring or a relatives offspring

Answer 37

Define inclusive fitness

Question 38

selection favors altruism

Answer 38

Define kin selection

Question 39

an individual learns by copying the behavior of a more experienced individual

Answer 39

Define social learning

Question 40

culture

Answer 40

Social learning breeds ______.

Question 41

behavior to increase fitness

Answer 41

Social learning passed down what to future generations?

Question 42

females choose mates that other females find attractive [):]

Answer 42

Define mate choice copying