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chapter 43 Flashcards

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What is a behavior?

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Any action by an organism, genrally a response to an stimulus, (a pieace of information gathered about the enviroment.

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What is behavior a part of?

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phenotype

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Proximate

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short term process acting within an individual’s lifetime affecting the behavior.

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Ultimate

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Long term evolutionary processes affecting the behavior.

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Origin of a behavior

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Developmental and Evolutionary

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Developmental Behavior

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How is the behavior acquired over an individuals lifetime?

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Evolutionary Behavior

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Where and how did the behavior arise in the past?

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Implementation of a Behavior

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Mechanistic and Adaptive

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Mechanistic

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How is the behavior caused through neural, muscular, and other processes?

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Adaptive

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How does the behavior enhance the survival and/or reproduction of individuals?

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What are the 4 Niko Tinbergen’s question about any behaviors

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Causation, development? , adaptive function’s? , evolutionary history?

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Causation?

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What causes the behavior to be performed example Responding to day length shift, air is passed through the syrinx, another male is singing nearby.

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Development

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Varies across bird species listen to father sing, hearing other, innate

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Adaptive functions

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Territory, mate, offspring , etc

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Evolutionary history

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Species specific songs are selected for through natural selection.

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Did dinosaurs sang

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yes!!!

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How is the animal behavior shaped?

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Animal behavior is shaped in part by genes acting through the nervous and endocrine systems.

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What is learning a behavior of?

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Learning is a change of behavior as a result of experience

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Where does behavior comes from?

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Behavior is influenced by both genetic (innate) and environmental(learned) factors

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What did behavior evolved by?

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Behavior evolves by natural selection just like another traits

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What does behavioral traits vary on?

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Populations

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What basis does behavioral traits have in populations?

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genetic basis

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What do individuals with more advantageous behavior reproduce?

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more offspring

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What do advantageous behaviors do?

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Increase

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A common way to interpret a behavior?

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Why does it increase survival and reproductive success? (ultimate causation!!!)

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Courtship displays?

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species- specific, highly repeatable similar among individuals of the species- WHy??

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what is a fixed action pattern in Geese

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Normal egg retrieval by a goose is an example of fixed action pattern, a stereotyped behavior in response to a stimulus

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When does the behavior still persists?

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Even if the egg is tied with a sting preventing it from being brought to the nest and a soccer ball elicits an even stronger response.

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What is a fixed pattern?

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A sequence of unlearned behaviors that is essentially unchangeable and invariant which is known as Innate behavior. Generally a behavior that is so important that all genetic variation has been lost.

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Tinbergen’s experiment

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Stimulus- Attack

32
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What else triggers behaviors

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Detection of features of a signal.
1. Sound patterns
2. Hormones and their derivatives.
3. Patterns of behavior of potential mates
4. Visual signal such as open mouth of chicks begging for food

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Feature Detections.

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  1. The nervous system must process stimuli in order for a response to be carried out.
  2. Stimulus recognition is often carried out by specialized sensory receptors that respond to important signals in the environment.
34
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What did humans do to certain animal behaviors?

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Humans artificially select for certain behaviors and we train behaviors into a domestic animal as well. Here we see a pointer doing its job, a behavior that has been bred into the dog breed.

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Who is famous for developing the idea of OPERANT AND CLASSICAL conditioning

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Povlov

36
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Mating Behavior in Voles- ADH receptor

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Prairie voles are monogamous ( 1 partner) , montane voles are Promiscuous ( many)
Researchers examined ADH receptors in the brain and discovered they are different in each species of vole.

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Non associative learning?

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that occurs in the absence of any particular outcome, such as a reward or punishment.

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What is habituation?

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The reduction or elimination of a behavioral response to a repeatedly presented stimulus.

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What is human learning based on?

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Much learning, including humans learning is based on imitation, one individual copies another

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What does the capacity to learn in many instances seems?

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Innate

41
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Sensitization

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another form of non- associative learning, is the enhancement of a response to a stimulus that is achieved by presenting a strong or novel stimulus first. This pre-stimulus makes the animal more alert and responsive to the next stimulus.

42
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Associative learning

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also called conditioning occurs when an animal learns to link ( or associate) two events.

43
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Imprinting

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A combo of learning and genes, based on the timing of learning- Ex. conrad Lorenz’s geese, and the Sandhill and Whooping Cranes ( Filial Imprinting)

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What is require information processing?

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45
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What are often used together?

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Orientation, navigation, and biological clocks are often used together.

46
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Moving

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in response to stimuli seen in even the simplest of organisms

47
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Kinesis( plural “kineses”)

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random, undirected movement

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Taxis(plural Taxes)

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Specific directional movement

49
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Navigating

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often involves a boatload of cues
1. Sun orientation
2. Landmarks
3. GPS in the brain
4. Olfactory signals

50
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keeping time

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  • circadian clock
  • lunar clock
  • Annual clock
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Migration

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the long distance movement of a population associated with the change of seasons/ resources

52
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What do communication involves?

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Interaction between a sender and a receiver

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What is communication

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  • any process in which a signal from one individual modifies the behavior of another individual.
  • For communication to be completed, the signal must be
    1. sent
    2. Received and
    3. acted upon
54
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Dishonest communication

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Generally only works when it is relatively rare. example ( Female Photuris fireflies flash the courtship signal of another species, then eat males that respond.

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what is shaped by natural selection?

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Social behaviors

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Most behaviors can be interpreted as?

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Benefiting the organism ( increasing fitness, and reproductive success.

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Altruistic behaviors

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decrease the fitness of the organism exhibiting the behavior and increase the fitness of the recipient.

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Altruism

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  • How could such behaviors evolve?
  • IF an allele makes an individual more likely to sacrifice itself to help someone else, it should be eliminated from a population.
    Self sacrificing
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Example of Altruism

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Prairie dogs give alarm calls when they see a predator. This helps group, but increases the danger to the alarm caller.

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Reciprocal Altruism

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Usually between related individuals or friends other with whom you are familiar and spend time with.

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Kin Selection

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Is natural selection that favors altruistic behaviors directed at close relatives

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Why does kin selection favors altruistic behaviors?

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Because close relatives share many alleles, reproductive success of a close relative is almost as good as one’s own reproductive success.

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What are the 2 ways to leave DNA behind in next generation

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  1. by having offspring
  2. by helping close relative have offspring
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hamilton’s rule

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Elephant family groups why help others
Lions prides why share resources

65
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Relatedness in social insects

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Haplodiploidy

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Operant Conditioning

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A method that uses reward and punishment for learning

67
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altruism

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that occurs between unrelated individuals when there will be repayment (or at least the promise of repayment) of the altruistic act in the future

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Altruism

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occurs when an individual reduces his or her own direct fitness and increases the fitness of another individual.

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eusocial

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animals, colony members help raise more members of their own generation.

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A courtship display

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is a set of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display.

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