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Question 1

causation

Answer 1

what external stimuli are necessary and sufficient to elicit the motor pattern and what is the nature of the “wiring program”

Question 2

Survival Value

Answer 2

how behavioral act contributes to survival value and reproductive success of animal performing that act

Question 3

Ontogeny

Answer 3

how behavioral acts based/influenced by learning or instinctive behavior (nature vs nurture)

Question 4

evolution

Answer 4

the effect of evolutionary change on behavior

Question 5

sign stimulus

Answer 5

is a stimulus that is able to evoke a Fixed action pattern behavioral response from an animal

Question 6

fixed action pattern

Answer 6

an instinctive behavioral response triggered by a sign stimulus. It is an involuntary and stereotyped behavior but the stimulus must reach its threshold before triggered

Question 7

an example of a sign stimulus, the resulting fixed action pattern and the adaptive value of that FAP

Answer 7

a sign stimulus is a gull seeing the shape of an egg and the fixed action pattern is the rolling egg motion where it brings the egg closer to its chest with its bill in order to increase chances of survival.