Social Interactions and Group Behavior

Question 1

Behaviour

Answer 1

Response to stimuli in the environment depends on external or internal stimulus most often internal

Question 2

What is a behavior influenced by genes

Answer 2

Called an adaptation

Question 3

How many main types of learned behavior are there?

Answer 3

4 types (Habituation, insight learning, Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning.)

Question 4

Kin Selection

Answer 4

Occurs when an animal engages in self-sacrificial behavior that benefits the genetic fitness of its relatives

Question 5

Stimuli

Answer 5

A thing or an event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue

Question 6

Habituation

Answer 6

A process by which an animal decrease or stops responding to stimuli that neither rewards nor harms it

Question 7

Insight Learning/Reasoning

Answer 7

Reasoning which occurs when an animal applies something it has already learned to a new

Question 8

Classical Conditioning

Answer 8

In which certain stimulus comes to produce a particular response

Question 9

Operant Conditioning

Answer 9

When an animal leans to behave a certain way to receive a reward or to avoid punishment

Question 10

Social Behaviour

Answer 10

choosing mates, defending territories or resources, and forming social groups, can increase evolutionary fitness

Question 11

Courtship

Answer 11

usually males advertise their willingness to mate by sending out signals including sounds, chemicals and visual displays to the other sex usually females

Question 12

courtship involves a eloborate series of behaviours that consist until mating occurs is called?

Answer 12

called rituals