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22 Cards in this Set
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Ethology
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scientific study of behavior
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Innate behavior
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Aquired through inheritance
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Learned behaviors
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are aquired through expirience
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Complex behavior
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a blend of innate and learned
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Fixed action pattern
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unlearned, unchangeable behaviors linked to a stimulus
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orientation
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coordinated movements that occur in response to an external stimulus.
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Imprinting
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The process by which young individuals acquire irreversible behavior patterns.
-sensitive period |
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Spatial learning
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establishment of memory of environments spatial structure
-using land marks |
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Operant Conditioning
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Association between a behavior and reward or punishment.
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Associative learning
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learning to associate different things with different outcomes.
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Classical Conditional
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-association between two stimuli
-can be arbitrary stimuli -Pavlovs Dogs |
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Stimulus that triggers migration
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-length of day
-temperature -food -circadian rhythm ( daily clock) |
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What info is used to migrate?
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-sun
-stars -magnetic fields -landmarks |
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Circadian rhythm
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internal clock
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Communication
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signals transmitted by one organism and are recieved by another.
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Four common types of signals:
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-auditory
-tactile -chemical -visual |
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Pheromones
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chemical signals between individuals of the same species.
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Sign stimulus
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The trigger for the behavior is an external cue.
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Tinbergens 4 questions
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-Causation-What stimulus (mechanism) led to a behavior
-Ontogeny- how does behavior develop in an individual -Function- Why is a behavior useful for an organism -Evolutionary history- why and how id a behavior evolve. |
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fixed action patterns
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sequence of unlearned acts linked to to a simple stimulus
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example of innate behavior
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males defending a certain territory
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5 types of learned behaviors
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-imprinting
-spatial learning -associative learning -problem solving -social learning |
