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19 Cards in this Set
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Behavioral Ecology
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The scientific study of animal behavior, including how it is controlled and how it develops, evolves, and contributes to survival and reproductive success.
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Fixed Action Patterns (FAP)
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A sequence of behavioral acts that is essentially unchangeable and usually carried to competition once initiated.
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Sign Stimuli
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An external sensory stimuli that triggers a fixed action pattern.
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Imprinting
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A type of learned behavior with significance innate component, acquired during a limited critical period. (irreversible)
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Sensitive period
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A limited phase in a individual animal's development when learning particular behaviors can take place.
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Innate Behavior
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Behavior that is developmentally fixed and under strong genetic control. (inborn)
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Kinesis
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A change in activity or turning rate in response to a stimuli.
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Taxis
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Movement toward or away from a stimulus.
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Signal
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A behavior that causes a change in behavior in another animal.
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Communication
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Animal behavior involving transmission of, reception, and response to signal. (visual, chemical, tactile, auditory)
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Pheromone
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In animals and fungi, a small, voliate chemical that functions in communication and that in animals acts much like a hormone in influencing physiology and behavior. (effective in low levels.)
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Learning
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A behavioral change resulting from experience.
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Habituation
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A very simple type of learning that involves a loss of responsiveness to stimuli that convey little or no info.
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Associative Learning
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The acquired ability one stimulus with another.
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Classical Conditioning
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A type of Associative Learning, the association of a normally irrelevant stimulus with a fixed behavioral response. (Palvov)
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Operant Conditioning
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A type of Associative Learning, in which an animal learns to associate one of its own behaviors with a reward or punishment and then tends to repeat or avoid that behavior. (trial/error)
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Agonistic Behavior
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A type of behavior involving a contest of some kind that determines which competitor gain access to some resource such as food or mates.
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Altrusim
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Behavior that reduces an individual's fitness while increasing the fitness of another individuals. (Selflessness)
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Kin Selection
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A phenomenon of inclusive fitness; used to explain altruistic behavior between related individuals.
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