The Study of Animal Behavior

Question 1

Behaviorism

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The ethological approach that states behavior is learned rather than genetically programmed

Question 2

Classical Conditioning

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The type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli occurring and approximately the same time or in roughly the same area

Question 3

Classical Ethology

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The ethological approach asserting that much of what animals know is instinctive or innate

Question 4

Conditioned Stimulus

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Sensory input unrelated to a simple reflex behavior

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Ethology

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The study of animal behavior

Question 6

Evolution

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The scientific theory that characterizes all related organisms as descended from common ancestors

Question 7

Fixed Action Patterns

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A term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical or predictable behaviors of a species

Question 8

Function

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In ethological terms, survival value.

Question 9

Innate

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Instinctive

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Instinct

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A combination of unlearned responses characteristics of a species

Question 11

Natural Selection

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The process that awards survival and reproductive success to individuals and groups best adjusted to their environment.

Question 12

Naturalists

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natural scientists

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Nature-Nurture Controversy

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The crux of two opposing schools, classical ethology, which views animal behavior as primarily instinctive and animal psychology which views animal behavior as primarily learned.

Question 14

Unconditioned Stimulus

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Sensory input that produces a simple reflex behavior

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Unconditioned Response

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A simple reflex behavior

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Stimulus-Response Theory

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The psychological school of thought stating that all complex forms of behavior, including emotions, thoughts and habits, are complex muscular and glandular responses that can be observed and measured

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Sociobiology

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The Study of the biological bases of social behavior

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Operant

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Functioning or tending to produce effects

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Operant Conditioning

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The type of conditioned learning that associates of certain activity, known as the operant, with punishment or reward

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Dance

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A complex pattern of movements performed by a bee that directs other bees to a food source

Question 21

Imprinting

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The acquisition in the very young of certain fixed action patterns

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Instrumental Learning

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Learning by trial and error

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Social Behavior

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the ways individual members of the same species interact with one other

Question 24

Sensitive Period

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A specific stage early in and animal’s life when imprinting occurs

Question 25

Recognition of Individuals

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The process that allows animals to distinguish their place in a social context broader than their relationship with primary caregivers