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Chapter 8 Vocab. Flashcards

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Behaviors that help animals achieve things in their lives.

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Animal Behavior

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A way of learning that involves a reward or punishment.

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Conditioning

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Learning to get used to something after being exposed to it repeatedly.

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Habituation

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Any behavior that occurs naturally in all animals of a given species.

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Innate behavior

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Learning from past experiences and reasoning.

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Insight learning

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An innate behavior is also know as this

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Instinct

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Behavior that occurs only after experience or practice.

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Learned behavior

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Learning by watching and copying

The behavior of someone else.

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Observational learning

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A simple response that always occurs when a certain stimulus is present.

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Reflex

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A tiny structure that controls the circadian rhythm.

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Biological clock

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Daily cycles of behavior.

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Circadian rhythm

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Any way that animals share information.

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Communication

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13
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Working together with other

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Cooperation

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Can be used to describe anything that takes place in the daytime.

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Diurnal

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15
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The use of symbols to communicate.

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Language

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The pairing of an adult male and an adult female for the purpose of reproduction

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Mating

17
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The movement of animals from one place to another.

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Migration

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Animals that only sleep during the day.

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Nocturnal

19
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Members of the group depend on each other and work together

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Social animals

20
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Animals that defend their territory

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Territorial

21
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Invertebrates in phylum echinodermata

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Echinoderm

22
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Inverbrates chordate that retain all four defining chordate traits as adults

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Lancelet

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Invertebrates chordate that lose some of the four defining chordate traits by adulthood.

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Tunicate

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