Chapter 8 Vocab. Flashcards
Behaviors that help animals achieve things in their lives.
Animal Behavior
A way of learning that involves a reward or punishment.
Conditioning
Learning to get used to something after being exposed to it repeatedly.
Habituation
Any behavior that occurs naturally in all animals of a given species.
Innate behavior
Learning from past experiences and reasoning.
Insight learning
An innate behavior is also know as this
Instinct
Behavior that occurs only after experience or practice.
Learned behavior
Learning by watching and copying
The behavior of someone else.
Observational learning
A simple response that always occurs when a certain stimulus is present.
Reflex
A tiny structure that controls the circadian rhythm.
Biological clock
Daily cycles of behavior.
Circadian rhythm
Any way that animals share information.
Communication
Working together with other
Cooperation
Can be used to describe anything that takes place in the daytime.
Diurnal
The use of symbols to communicate.
Language
The pairing of an adult male and an adult female for the purpose of reproduction
Mating
The movement of animals from one place to another.
Migration
Animals that only sleep during the day.
Nocturnal
Members of the group depend on each other and work together
Social animals
Animals that defend their territory
Territorial
Invertebrates in phylum echinodermata
Echinoderm
Inverbrates chordate that retain all four defining chordate traits as adults
Lancelet
Invertebrates chordate that lose some of the four defining chordate traits by adulthood.
Tunicate