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| Explain why social behaivors are present |
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| They with stood natural selection |
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| What is Proximate and what is ultimate causes |
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-Proximate answers how questions and concerns the immediate enviroment
-ultimate is the why questions and deals with evolution. |
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| What is fixed action patterns, and how does it work? |
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| fixed action patterns are sequences of innate behavoir that are carried out to completion when triggered by a sign stimulus. |
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| A sensitive period during early stages of life in which an animal innately choses to follow something. |
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| What is kinesis and what is taxis? |
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| Kinesis is triggered movement and taxis is moveing from a negitive stimulus |
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| What is the difference between commmnication and language? |
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| Communication is non verbal and language is verbal |
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| An internal chemical that tells when something should happen |
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| the ability to pass good traits |
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| whats the difference between learning and habituation? |
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| learning is the aquisition of new information and habituation is the densitizing of a stimulus. |
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| What is Classical Conditioning? |
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| a learning process wear to stimuli are repeadedly paired, so that they each cause the same reaction seperatley |
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| Spatial learning? Cognitive map? |
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Spatial learning is experience based on spacial structures in the enviroment
Congnitive map is the interneral representation of spacial relationship |
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| behavoirs that exist as a compromise between benifit and cost |
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| Name to kinds of mating behaovoir |
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| name 2 kinds of strong bonds |
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| monogomous and polygomous |
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| name two kinds of polygomous bonds |
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polyandry- showy male
polyny- showy female |
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| 2 factors that influence evolution |
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| need of young, paternity certainty |
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| Define sexual selection and explain what shapes this |
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| is when certain characteristics are perfered in a mate. society shapes this as well as biologically knowing what is fit. |
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| What is agonistic behaovour |
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| a ritualized behavoir where the winner gains resources based on traits |
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| When the cost of winning isn't worth the reward |
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| behavoir dictated by the behaovouir of someone else |
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| explain altruism and how inclusive fitness relates |
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| involves giving up something for the benifit of someone else. inclusive fitness means altruism will more likley be practice on relatives likley to pass similar traits |
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| the ability to learn by observation |
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