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| study of living forms, past and present and the relationship among living things through time. |
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| shows different natural relationships between different groups |
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| The ex: are Mire cats related to a normal cat? both are carnivores. Depends on what level of classification you are talking about |
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| used to categorize organisms into groups |
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| academic discipline of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and naming those groups |
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| formal system (latin) of naming species of organisms. |
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| chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time and describes timing in relationship to earths history |
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| study of the total movements made by an intact animal under nervous control as it adapts to the environment |
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| something you base your facts on |
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| learning to not respond to stimuli. accustomed or used to something |
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| special units within the nervous system of young animals, that detect neural messages generated by sign stimuli and upon receipt of an appropriate signal activate motor cells triggering a fixed acton pattern of behavior |
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| innate releasing mechanism |
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| something that reduces a drive |
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| when we strengthen a stimulus response. |
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| individuals behavior is modified by its consequences. may change in form frequency or strength |
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| EX: Pavlov's Dog-dogs began to salivate by conditioning of the bell |
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| theory of mind and brain of the berlin school, the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog with self-organizing tendencies. |
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| the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks in the presence of other people |
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| copying of a novel or otherwise improbable act or utterance. some act for which there is clearly no instinctive tendency. |
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| behavioral trait passed on from generation to generation. |
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| Ex: Japanes Macaques(snow monkeys) 2 yrs some washed potatoes, after 10 3/4 washed potatoes |
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| voluntary intrinsically motivated activities normally associated with recreational pleasure and enjoyment |
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| attribution of human characteristics |
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| phase sensitive learning that is rapid and independant of the consequences of behavior |
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| If the animal does not become imprinted at the critical period then it________ will. |
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| learning that occurs at a very specific time period is called the |
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| imprinting is reversible or irreversible? |
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| any activity that alters the behavior of other organisms |
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| Said imprinting is said to occur when innate (natural) behaviors are released in response to a learned stimulus |
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| accidental communication between organisms |
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| Inadvertent communications |
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| Ex: predator escapes on a twig, prey escapes |
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| Inadvertent communications |
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| ___must reach a receiver to communicate |
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a)quickly
b)large
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| Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist |
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| father of modern taxonomy |
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| laid the foundation for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature |
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| published the first edition of systema naturae in 1735, which established itself as the starting point for zoological nomenclature |
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| established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors |
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| proposed scientific theory |
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| evolution resulted from a process called natural selection |
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| Darwins Scientific theory |
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| Published origin of species in 1859, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts |
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| Austrian Zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist |
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| one of the founders of modern ethology |
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| studied instinctive behavior in animals. |
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| working with geese, rediscovered the principle of imprinting |
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| established the psychological school of behaviorism |
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| conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing and advertising. |
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| published the Naked Ape in 1967. |
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| Suggested there are 2 ways visual displays could have been developed. |
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| Desmond Morris's 2 suggested ways that visual displays could have been developed |
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