Quiz 1

Question 1

Animal Behavior

Answer 1

Any internally coordinated, externally visible pattern of activity that responds to changing external or internal conditions

Question 2

How can behaviors be internally coordinated?

Answer 2

Thru endocrine (responds to internal changes) and/or nervous system responses (responds to external changes)

Question 3

Are animal behaviors passive behaviors?

Answer 3

They are actions that the organism starts

Question 4

What is not considered to be behavior?

Answer 4

An animals physiology

Question 5

Define Territoriality

Answer 5

Defense of the animals preferred region

Question 6

How do you study AB?

Answer 6

Thru observation - either in a lab or in the animals natural habitat
Hypotheis testing

Question 7

Define observation.

Answer 7

Taking notes, looking for particular behaviors or the duration of the behavior. Understanding the behavior not just seeing it.

Question 8

Define ethograms

Answer 8

Detailed descriptions of behaviors.

• what the behavior is
• when the behavior occurred
• how or was it a sequence of behaviors

Question 9

Define hypothesis testing

Answer 9

Operant conditioning in lab animals

Question 10

When you ask behavioral questions, what do you have to take into account?

Answer 10

You have to take into account how the environment will affect the behavior.

Question 11

Define proximate causal questions

Answer 11

the HOW questions
looks at the individual level
the immediate causes of behaviors

Question 12

Physiology response question

Answer 12

What internal mechanisms control the behavior?

Question 13

Ontogeny question

Answer 13

How does the behavior develop over the individuals lifetime?

Question 14

Ultimate causation

Answer 14

The WHY questions
- why is this a characteristic behavior? / why did this happen?
Species level

Question 15

Ecology response

Answer 15

What is the function of the behavior? How does the behavior effect reproduction/survival in an animals habitat?

Question 16

Evolution Response

Answer 16

What is the evolutionary history of the behavior and why did it evolve?
- Compare evolutionary species history to other species.

Question 17

Define Natural Selection

Answer 17

When some in a population have better traits for their environment and are more likely to survive and reproduce. This creates competition between organisms.

Question 18

Define Sexual Selection

Answer 18

Evolution is shaped by members of the opposite sex - thru trait preference/mate choice

Question 19

Define Secondary Sexual Characteristics

Answer 19

Traits that differ between sexes

The trait that females use to choose potential mates

Question 20

Cost of males having flashy traits

Answer 20

increase predation
- slow them down
- more visible to predators
more physiologically demanding

Question 21

Benefits for males to have flashy traits

Answer 21

More likely to pass down their genes

Question 22

Define sexual dimorphism

Answer 22

sexes of the same species look different

Question 23

Define Anthropomorphism

Answer 23

Assuming another species behaves as it does because it has thoughts or feelings like those of humans

Question 24

Define Teleology

Answer 24

Assuming another species behaves as it does because it can foresee the goals or consequences of its behavior
- Assumes that animals have goals for their behaviors

Question 25

Define Morgans Canon

Answer 25

The simplest answer is usually the best answer

Question 26

Define Comparative Psychology

Answer 26

Looks at HOW behaviors evolve proximate questions use puzzle boxes to test an animals puzzle solving skills over time

Question 27

Define Behaviorism

Answer 27

Behaviors are a result of experience and enhanced by reinforcement - not caused by emotions/instinct

Question 28

Define ethology

Answer 28

the study of whole animal behavior under natural conditions

Question 29

Car von Frisch

Answer 29

Observed that honey bees would tell each other where pollen could be found by how they wiggle once they were back in the hive

Question 30

Niko Tinbergen

Answer 30

Observed wasps, fish, and shorebirds

Question 31

Konrad Z. Lorenz

Answer 31

Studied geese by allowing them to imprint on him and studying their behaviors

Question 32

Define Sociobiology

Answer 32

Biological study of social behavior | How social structure affects fitness, gene flow, & population genetics