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Quiz 1 Flashcards

1
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Animal Behavior

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

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How can behaviors be internally coordinated?

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

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3
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Are animal behaviors passive behaviors?

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They are actions that the organism starts

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4
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What is not considered to be behavior?

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An animals physiology

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5
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Define Territoriality

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Defense of the animals preferred region

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How do you study AB?

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

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7
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Define observation.

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

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Define ethograms

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Detailed descriptions of behaviors.

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

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Operant conditioning in lab animals

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

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

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Define proximate causal questions

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

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12
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Physiology response question

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What internal mechanisms control the behavior?

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Ontogeny question

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How does the behavior develop over the individuals lifetime?

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14
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Ultimate causation

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

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Ecology response

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

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16
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Evolution Response

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

17
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Define Natural Selection

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

18
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Define Sexual Selection

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

19
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Define Secondary Sexual Characteristics

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Traits that differ between sexes

The trait that females use to choose potential mates

20
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Cost of males having flashy traits

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

21
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Benefits for males to have flashy traits

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More likely to pass down their genes

22
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Define sexual dimorphism

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sexes of the same species look different

23
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Define Anthropomorphism

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

24
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Define Teleology

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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

25
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Define Morgans Canon

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The simplest answer is usually the best answer

26
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Define Comparative Psychology

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

27
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Define Behaviorism

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

28
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Define ethology

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the study of whole animal behavior under natural conditions

29
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Car von Frisch

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

30
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Niko Tinbergen

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Observed wasps, fish, and shorebirds

31
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Konrad Z. Lorenz

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

32
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Define Sociobiology

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Biological study of social behavior

How social structure affects fitness, gene flow, & population genetics

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