Animal Behaviour Flashcards
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Benefits of social behaviour
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- hierarchy through grooming
- find food sources & share in a group
- protect each other from predators
- increase chances of mating
- learned behaviour
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Dopamine
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- a neurotransmitter in the brain
- 5 different dopamine receptors on the synapse
- DR04 coded for with 18 alleles - some of the alleles found links to ADHD/obesity/drug addict
- still in testing
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Social relationships
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- the relationship between different members of a group
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Taxes
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- a directional response in movement either towards or away from a stimuli
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Kinesis
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- a non-directional response in which the animals rate of movement is affected by the strength of stimuli
- ie woodlice- increased movement due to increased humidity
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Escape reflexes
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- ie worms
- have wide neurones
- if touched -> muscles contract -> very rapid withdrawal into burrow
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Innate behaviour
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- as a pattern of inherited pre-set behaviour that does not require learning or practice
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Learned behaviour
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- behaviour that has been modified by experience
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Insight learning
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- wolfgang kohler
- chimps stacked boxes to reach bananas
- an animal puts together 2 or more things its learned to solve a problem and gain a reward
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Latent learning
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- learning that occurs without an obvious reward
- and which reward is found later in different circumstances
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Associative learning
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- learns to associate a stimulus that was previously nothing -> to a reward
- increasing chances of survival
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Reinforcer
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- rewarding a result
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Operant learning
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- animals learn to carry out a behaviour to gain a reward or avoid a punishment
- ie skinners box
- accidentally pressed lever = reward
- realise so press lever more often
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Classical conditioning
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- pavlov + pavlovs dogs
- learn to associate 1 stimulus with another stimulus & respond to the learned stimulus
- ie dogs salivate = reflex
- unconditioned stimuli = smell
- conditioned stimulus = bell
= a conditioned reflex
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Imprinting
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- a modification of behaviour that happens in a relatively short period of tine early in an animals life
- ie recognising a mum - tricky in captivity
