Behavioral biology Flashcards

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What are the 4 levels of animal behavior?

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  1. Physiology
  2. Ontogeny
  3. Phylogeny
  4. Adaptive significance
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What is physiology?

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How a behavior is influenced by physiological factors.

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What is ontogeny?

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How a behavior develops in an individual.

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What is phylogeny?

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A behaviors evolutionary origin in a group of related species.

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What is adaptive significance?

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A behaviors role in survival and fitness.

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What is ethology?

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The study of the natural history of behavior.

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Ethology focuses on what behavior?

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Innate Behavior

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What is a key stimulus?

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Individuals respond in stereotyped ways to particular stimuli.

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Present paths in a nervous system result in?

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Fixed Action Pattern

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What is habituation?

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The simplest form of learning where an animal becomes conditioned not to respond to a stimulus that has no positive or negative consequences.

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What is associative learning?

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Changes in behavior through association of two stimuli or between a stimulus and a response.

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Instinct guides what?

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Learning

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What is imprinting?

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Behavioral development, also called “phase sensitive learning”. It happens at a particular phase in development.

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14
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Successful reproduction depends on what?

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Depends on signals and responses

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15
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Communication is adaptive for what?

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For survival

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What is a society?

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A group of organisms of the same species that are organized in a cooperative manner

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What are castes?

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Groups of individuals that differ in size and morphology and preform different tasks

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What does eusocial mean?

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Not all individuals are reproductive