U1.C1 Flashcards
a natural process that results in the survival and reproductive success of individuals or groups best adjusted to their environment and that leads to the perpetuation of genetic qualities best suited to that particular environment
Natural selection
Who first proposed natural selection and what year?
Darwin, 1859
a relationship between a specific event/stimulus and a simple behavior/response to that event.
Reflex
A series of related acts found in all or nearly all members of a species.
Modal Action Patterns
How are MAP similar to and different from reflexes?
MAP involves the whole/entire organism and are more complex and variable.
The different types of functions of MAP.
Reproduction, feeding, response to environment threats, protection of young
Describe general behavior traits.
Tendency for certain behaviors to occur as a result of a variety of environmental stimuli
behavior tendencies with a strong genetic component
General behavior traits
abrupt changes in genes
Mutations
How is learning defined?
“Relatively permanent changes in environment-behavior relations due to certain types of experiences (environmental interactions)”
a change in behavior due to change in the environment
Evolved modifiability, fixed plasticity
a reduction in the intensity or probability of a reflex response as a result of a repeatedly evoking the response
Habituation
What is the title of Darwin’s book published in 1859?
On the origins of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (1859)
what made it Darwin’s book remarkable?
Darwin had a lot of evidence and information to back up his claim.
Who had the same insight as Darwin?
Alfred Wallace
