Exam 1

Question 1

typological thinking

Answer 1

a way of looking at things only in terms of types not variations

Question 2

species concept

Answer 2

a group of organisms that can interbreed and reproduce fertile offspring

Question 3

agnostic signals

Answer 3

threat aggression and submission

Question 4

ethology

Answer 4

animal behavior

Question 5

ethogram

Answer 5

table of the different kinds of animal behavoir observed

Question 6

sign stimulus

Answer 6

the determining feature of a stimulus that produces a response

Question 7

niko tinbergen

Answer 7

4 central questions
organization of indicia social behavior in animals

Question 8

frisch

Answer 8

ritulaztion of the honey bee dance

Question 9

Hamilton

Question 10

zahavi

Answer 10

handicap principle of communication

Question 11

Lorenz

Answer 11

ducks and geese imprinting

Question 12

Lamarck

Answer 12

inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 13

polygynandry

Answer 13

males and females have multiple mates

Question 14

polyandry

Answer 14

females have multiple mates

Question 15

polygny

Answer 15

males have multiple mates

Question 16

preexisting trait hypothesis

Answer 16

the preference for a trait can be found before the trait evolves

Question 17

preexisting bais hypothèses

Answer 17

female preference the evolved prior to the evolution of the trait

Question 18

promiscuity

Answer 18

many relationships

Question 19

polygamy

Answer 19

more than one female or male mate

Question 20

unreliable signal hypothesis

Answer 20

some signals are unreliable indicator os male quality

Question 21

multiple message hypothesis

Answer 21

different ornaments single different properties of a mates quality

Question 22

redundant signal hypothesis

Answer 22

each character can only show poetical representation

Question 23

mate guarding hypothesis

Answer 23

males should be capable or predicting females receptive and guard females close to it

Question 24

intersexual selection

Answer 24

sexual selection between 2 sexes

Question 25

intrasexual selection

Answer 25

same sex competes for opposite sex

Question 26

anisogamy

Answer 26

males a females produce sex cells

Question 27

scramble competition polygyny

Answer 27

males secure a female through competitive searching

Question 28

convince polyandry

Answer 28

feels increase receptivity faces on the cost of resistance and mating CR excess CM