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| What is Proximate Causation? |
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| the "how" of behavior, studies the immediate cause of behavior |
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| What is Ultimate Causation? |
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| the "why" of behavior, studies the evolutionary significance and how it influences survival and reproduction |
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| What is innate/instinctive behavior? |
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| behavior is a response to an environmental trigger that does not require learning |
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| A form of nonassociative learning; a decrease in response to repeated nonessential stimuli |
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| What is associative learning? |
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| A change in behavior by association of two stimuli or by behavior and a response |
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| What is classical conditioning? |
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| Occurs when two stimuli are associated with eachother |
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| What is Operant Conditioning? |
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| Occurs when an animal associates a behavior with reward or punishment |
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| A form of learning in which a young animal forms a social attachment to other indiviuals or develops preferences that will influence behavior later in life |
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| What is a genetic template? |
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| guides their learning as behavior develops |
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