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Response to any stimuli
ALL LIVING THINGS EXHIBIT BEHAVIOR |
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Through experience,one object or situation becomes liinked to another
EX mom shows up and baby knows that they are going to get feed |
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operant learning
aka Trial-&-Error |
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Process of finding a favorable outcome by determining negative outcomes
EX crying for toys |
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| knowing one's owns family members or knowing ones' own species from another ect. |
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pure instinct involved (Genetic hard-wiring)
EX going to lay eggs at same place have where they were laid (Bids & Turtles) |
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learning by watching another and doing what they do
(a basic way of learning) EX Shaving |
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taking information and putting them together and getting novel relationship ( higher level of thinking)Abstract thinking
EX-Milk & Birds
-Chimps & modify sticks (tool using) |
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| the simplest;getting used to thinks that are always are around |
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| what you will call your own personal space |
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-holder of the territory will defend territory where reproduction is going to take place.
- Exhibiting the behaviors that will bring mate in order to produce off spring |
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| Males and Courtships Rituals |
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Males are most likely to be the Flamboyant
*females are final say-SEXUAL SELECTION
EX-Birds (males) make the nest and attract females with singing( females do not sing)
Song=courtship display |
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-(first seen in birds)
Degrees of social dominance (King-Lords-ect)
1st person calls all the “shots”
Many smaller & weaker are left helpless
Defending Territory with Pecking Order-1st is put in harms way the most often to defend the group as a whole |
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within a group choosing of some individuals that reproduce more often because they have shown to produce good offspring (be better parents).
EX-Hyena |
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doing something and expecting absolutley nothing in return & it may put you at harms way
(kin selections is not altruistic) |
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| EX- Ostridge- lays eggs and allows for other birds to lay their eggs in her nest (fertilized by same males) NOT ALTRUISTIC-puts her eggs in the middle and the other hens at the edges so if predator comes they will take the other hens eggs. |
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| a group of individuals of the same species, living together; are organized, and and show division of labor & resources and are mutually dependent |
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| Intergenerational Conflict |
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| male vs. female perception,contribution to raising of young |
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| mother may tend eggs or larve, but nest is not peremanent |
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| nest is permenant; involves cooperation of individuals in a division of abor in caring for young. |
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| Caste heirarchy implies no room for improvement or moving up a station in life |
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