Animal Behavior

Front 1

______ is the evolutionary development or history of taxonomic groups of organisms

Back 1

phylogeny

Front 2

Who proposed idea of evolution before Darwin?

Back 2

Erasumus Darwin, and Lamark

Front 3

What are some of the big points of natural selection?

Back 3

variation, variation is heritable, large # offspring, scare resources, offspring better adapted survive mate and pass on genes.

Front 4

Why did Jenkin object to Darwin?

Back 4

Because of painpot problem

Front 5

What does antithesis describe?

Back 5

How opposite behaviors express opposite emotions

Front 6

True false Romanes was interested in how animals automatically responded because of instincts.

Back 6

False- he was interested in how ants behaved like people.

Front 7

______ is an idea where you catagorize everything with man at the top of the list.

Back 7

Anthropocentric

Front 8

the ____ approach focused on how simple physio chemical reactions influenced animal behavior.

Back 8

reductionistic

Front 9

true false the reductionistic approach had a beg influence on camparative psychology.

Back 9

True

Front 10

True or False comparative psychology focused on instincts?

Back 10

False it focused on evolution of learning

Front 11

The _____ or _____ approach attemts to reconstruct bhavioral phylogenies it is the oldeest and least powerul use of evolution to study behavior/

Back 11

historial/ phylogenetic

Front 12

True/ false convergent evolution can skew ethology?

Back 12

False- it messes up historical approach

Front 13

_____ and _____ are the two main branches of animal behavior that were studied up until 1960

Back 13

comparative/ ethology

Front 14

True / False Uexkull came up with Umwelt concept

Back 14

true

Front 15

______ is a inherited behavioral response

Back 15

instinct

Front 16

a ___ is a behavioral catalog.

Back 16

ethogram

Front 17

The ____ is the unit of inherited behavior.

Back 17

Fixed Action Potential (FAP)

Front 18

The ____ was name given to process where nerv. system is involved when org. performs a FAP in response to releaser

Back 18

Innate Releasing mechanisn

Front 19

True/ false ex. of goose retrieving egg is FAP

Back 19

True

Front 20

______ describes when FAP occurs when no releaser is present

Back 20

Vacuum activities

Front 21

True/ False Von Frisch proposed hydraulic model of action specific energy?

Back 21

False- Lorenz

Front 22

____ of instinct refercs to how a FAP can improve over time.

Back 22

Ontogeny

Front 23

who had 4 whys?

Back 23

Tinbergen

Front 24

The ____ approach seeks to evaluate a behavior ny how it contributes to the fitness of animals performing it.

Back 24

Evaluative

Front 25

Kruuk used the ____ approache when studying the mob behavior in gulls.

Back 25

adapationist approach

Front 26

True/ false -sexual imprinting and maternal imprinting occurs at same time in species

Back 26

False

Front 27

What are the 3 components of reproductive process?

Back 27

1, secretion of sex steroids, production of gametes, and timing of mating behavior

Front 28

True / false females reproduction can be influenced by male courtship.

Back 28

True

Front 29

_____ is a reproductive pattern characterized by a complete temporal uncoupling of mating behavior from gonadal maturation adn sex steroid hormone secretion. Eg. red-sided garter snake

Back 29

dissociated