Development Of Behaviour Flashcards
What is instinctive behaviour?
Behaviours which an animal doesn’t need to learn, these behaviours are locked within their genetic coding as an evolutionary advantage for survival.
What is learned behaviour?
A learned behaviour is one that an organism develops as a result of experience. Learned behaviours contrast with innate behaviours, which are genetically hardwired and can be performed without any prior experience or training.
What is trail and error?
Learning in which an animal comes to associate particular behaviours with the consequences they produce.
What is observational learning?
The animal simply learns by observing and mimicking. Animals are able to learn individual behaviours as well as entire behavioural repertoires through observation.
What is parental & social teaching behaviour?
Parental - A behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness of offspring.
Social - Animals learn from others. This phenomenon, termed ‘social learning’, is well established across numerous taxa and contexts.
What is cultural behaviour?
Behaviour that is passed from one individual to another, spreads across a group and becomes a group characteristic.
What is imprinting?
A form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual, auditory, or tactile experience and thereafter follows that object.
Filial – A social attachment is established between a young animal and an object that is typically (although not necessarily) a parent.
Sexual - A form of learned mate preference for a trait that an individual has observed in its population.
