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Behavior Ecology
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/20/2008

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What is behavior?
Definition
What an animal does and how an animal does it
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Proximate Cause
Definition
immediate stimulus, it explains how behavior is caused
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Learned behavior
Definition
modified to response of experience
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What is behavior ecology?
Definition
study of behavior in natural environment from an evolutionary perspective
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What is ecology?
Definition
Interaction between organisms and environment.
Term
What are the two types of behavior causes?
Definition
Proximate and Ultimate
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Ultimate Cause
Definition
why a behavior evolved it explains reproductive and survival success
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Innate behavior
Definition
instinctively programmed
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True or False
All behavior has no genetic basis
Definition
False
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True or False
All behavior is modified by environment
Definition
True
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What happens when the benefit is greater?
Definition
The behavior is adapted
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What is learning an example of ?
Definition
A complex behavior
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Habituation
Definition
learned not to respond to repeated stimulus
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Associative learning/condition
Definition
association made between stimulus and response
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Classical conditioning
Definition
A type of associative learning in which an involuntary response comes to be associated positively and negatively with a stimulus that did not originally elicit the response
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Operant Conditioning
Definition
an individual's behaviour is shaped by reinforcement or by punishment.
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Observation learning
Definition
learning by observing another's performance
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Insight learning
Definition
make new associations between previously learned items to solve a
new problem
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Imprinting
Definition
form association with another individual or
object during critical period early in life; long-lasting
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What is social behavior?
Definition
interaction between two or more animals (usually same species)
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What are the essential communications for social behavior?
Definition
Visual
auditory
tactile
chemical
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How is a social system determined?
Definition
Competition
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Cooperative behavior
Definition
behavior that helps others
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Direct Fitness
Definition
reproductive success measured by viable offspring
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Altruism
Definition
individual reduces their own fitness
and increases the fitness of another individual
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Reciprocal Altruism
Definition
altruist expects a future
benefit from initial sacrifice
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Inclusive fitness
Definition
sum of an individual’s direct fitness
and indirect fitness (number of offspring of relatives)
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