• A particular behavior is performed without having been learned by experience
• Ex. baby mimic facial expressions of adult
• Ex. Cuckoo lays eggs in other birds nest

Animal movement that is random and does not result in orientation with resprect to a stimulus

Animals process information from past experiences and then use it to vary or change responses to stimuli

Type of learned behavior that is a time dependent form of learning triggered by a stimuli

Type of learned behavior that involves loss of responsiveness to stimuli that conveys little or no new information

Some traits are better at helping an individual to survive so those alleles increase in a population

Any behavior that promotes the survival of an individual and is passed on to offspring

Any behavior that increases an individual's chance to produce or protect offspring of its own regardless of the consequences for the group as a whole

• A self-sacrificing behavior. 
• Helps others but diminishes its own chance of producing offspring

Cues encoded in stimuli for members of a species.

Ex. odors, colors, sounds, postures, movements

Signal sent by one individual that causes a change in another animal

A signal a male makes to show a female he is ready to reproduce

A society held together by reproductive self-interest although not consciously so

A social group in which some of the individuals have adopted subordinate status to others