chapter 1 Flashcards
Any internally coordinated, externally visible pattern of activity that responds to changing external or internal conditions are called?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Animal Behavior
Animal behavior
A formal description of an animals behavior, and method to systematically study animal behavior is called?
a) Ethogram
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis
Ethogram
the TOTAL TIME and relative frequency of different behaviors performed by an individual is called?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Time budget
d) Ultimate behavior
Time budget
What generates testable predictions
a) Correlation
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis
Hypothesis
Positive correlation vs negative correlation (Need to see image)
Variables vary together predictably is…
a) Correlation
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis
Correlation
One variable causes the other
a) Correlation
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis
causation
-correlation doesn’t equal causation
An explanation based on assumptions, testable predictions are called?
a) Proximate
b) Scientific theory
c) Research hypothesis
d) Ultimate behavior
Research hypothesis
An hypothesis the makes predictions, has been tested over and over, has not been rejected is called?
a) Proximate
b) Scientific theory
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior
Scientific theory
Who developed the 4 major behavioral questions and the pioneer of ethology?
a) Loyd Morgan
b) Nikolaas Tinergen
c) Charles Darwin
d) George romans
Nikolaas Tinergen
What are the 4 behavioral questions?
1) What is the mechanism
2) Development
3) Functionality
4) Evolutionary history
What is this considered Immediate stimuli causing the behavior (chemical hormonal neurobiological) this is the?
a) Mechanism
b) Development
c) Functionality
d) Evolutionary history
Mechanism (proximate behavior)
What is this considered: How does the behavior change as it grows? How does the animal use sensory and motor abilities to activate and modify behavior patterns?
a) Mechanism
b) Development
c) Functionality
d) Evolutionary history
Development
What is this considered:
How does this behavior affect survival and reproduction?
-Tradeoffs between survival and reproductive success?
a) Mechanism
b) Development
c) Functionality
d) Evolutionary history
Functionality (ultimate)
What is this considered:
How does the behavior reflect evolutionary history of the animal?
-Compare to another closely related species?
-How did the behavior originate, and how has it changed over evolutionary time?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior
Ultimate behavior
Occur during the lifetime of an animal (immediate/short term)This is an example of what?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior
Proximate behavior
Occur over the long-term EVOLUTION of the species (not individual) this is what type of behavior?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior
Ultimate behavior
Belding ground squirrels males leave natal burrow. Increase in testosterone / hormonal this is what type of behavior?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior
Proximate
Males leave natal burrow to AVIOD INBREEDING
-offspring become healthier
-male genetics information causing dispersal
-behavior passed on genetically
What type of behavior is this?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior
Ultimate behavior
Who developed the study of adaptions using evolutionary reasoning?
a) Loyd Morgan
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Charles Darwin
d) George romans
Charles Darwin
Behavior neither learned nor requiring experience
- Interspecific brood parasitism is an example of what?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Evolution of instincts
d) Comparative psychology
Evolution of instincts
(Evo stinks a brood that is a parasite)
Studies animal behavior, often across species, in order to understand human minds is called?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Comparative psychology
Comparative psychology
Who examined animal consciousness?
a) Loyd Morgan
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) George romans
George romans
(romans are cons)
Who developed the simplest psychological process possible should be used to interpret an animals behavior?
a) Loyd Morgan
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike
Loyd Morgan
(morgan interpret)
or
(ppp look at question)
Who used standardized methodology and experimental method?
Example) puzzle box
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike
E.L. Thorndlike
(dike like meth and stand)
Who researched on motor theory of consciousness and is the author of groundbreaking textbook on experimental methods in comparative psychology?
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike
Margaret Floy Washburne
(wash motor)
What is the study of learned behaviors that can be controlled and predicted by environmental stimuli?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology
Behaviorism (environmental stimuli)
who developed the study of learned behaviors that can be controlled and predicted by environmental stimuli?
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike
Pavlov watson and skinner
(pav love skinner women to controol and dick(predict) them down and stimulate(stimuli) this is a learned behavior)
Who developed the study of how animals learn to adapt to their natural environment and solve problems (infield and natural conditions in lab)?
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike
Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
What is the study of how animals learn to adapt to their natural environment and solve problems (infield and natural conditions in lab)?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology
Ethology
What is the understanding of human thinking and behavior, by natural selection shaped brain architecture/ thought processes adaptively?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology
(Architecture) or (adaptively)
What is the study of how NATURAL SELECTION ACTS ON MENTAL PROCESSES AND COGNITION in animals?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology
Cognitive (mental) ethology
What is the study that focuses on ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR and fitness consequences?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology
Behavioral Ecology
Attributing human motivations, characteristics, or emotions to animals is called
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology
Anthropomorphism
Guilty look in dogs are an example of what?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology
Anthropomorphism
