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26 Cards in this Set
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Experimenting or testing to find an answer or an explanation to what is being seen |
Hypothesis-based science |
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Behaviors that are designed to attract a mate |
Courtship behavior |
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Working together that is beneficial to the entire group |
Cooperation |
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The area an animal may fiercely defend because they use it for food gathering or mating purposes |
Territory |
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Behaviors that involves some form of signalling (verbal or non-verbal) |
Communication |
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Learned behavior where a meaningless stimulus causes a behavior |
Classical Conditioning |
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Observing and recording what is being observed |
Discovery-based science |
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Learned behavior that is associated behaviors with rewards or punishment |
Operant Conditioning |
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Use of scientific knowledge for a specific purpose |
Technology |
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Behaviors that do not have to be learned |
Innate Behaviors |
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Ability to respond to new situations appropriately without previous experience |
Insight |
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Behavior based on the animals evolutionary adaptation |
Ultimate Cause of Behavior |
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Behavior in which an organism will mark and defend an area |
Territoriality |
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Explains an animals immediate interaction with the environment |
Immediate cause of behavior |
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Behavior that often involves the young learning survival skills and conditioning their muscular and cardiovascular system |
Play Behavior |
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Animals learn not to respond to a stimulus after repeated exposure |
Habituation |
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Refers to animals that are active during the day |
Diurnal |
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Learning that is limited to a specific time period in the organisms life (chicks following their mother) |
Imprinting |
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Ranking of individuals in a large group |
Dominance Hierarchies |
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Refers to animals that are active at night |
Nocturnal |
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Unchangeable sequence of events that are based on some basic survival instinct |
Fixed Action Pattern (FAP) |
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Physical struggles or threatening demeanors that animals that live in groups sometimes exhibit |
Aggressive Behaviors |
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What an animal does as it interacts with its environment |
Animal Behavior |
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The study of animal behavior |
Ethology |
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Behavior based on a 24-hour cycle |
Circadian Rhythm |
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The study of living things |
Biology |
