Lecture 22

Question 1

Instinct

Answer 1

behaviour pattern that reliably develops in individuals that receive adequate nutrition and that is given in function form on its first performance

Question 2

Learning

Answer 2

durable and usually adaptive changes in an animals behaviour traceable to experiences by those individuals

Question 3

Call types of cockatoos and galahs

Answer 3

1. Begging Call: begging for food from parents
2. Alarm Calls: given in the presence of predator
3. Contact Calls: maintain associations with parents/flock when mobile

Question 4

Habituation

Answer 4

repeated stimuli without appropriate feedback or unimportant feedback ex. clothes

Question 5

Imprinting

Answer 5

structured learning, critical periods, life-long learning, often includes mating

Question 6

Associative Learning

Answer 6

association of stimuli, classical & operant conditioning

Question 7

Insight Learning

Answer 7

correct behaviour on first try due to reasoning not instinct

Question 8

Play

Answer 8

physiological/social/cognitive practice, developing skills

Question 9

Gull Chicks

Answer 9

after 3 weeks they will only respond to their own parents

Question 10

Taste Aversion

Answer 10

most animals will avoid a food if it makes them sick