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| Genetic, inherited;"instinctive", automatic and consistent |
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| From the Environment. The ability to learn is inherited, but the behavior develops during an animals lifetime. variable&flexible |
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| immediate stimulus&mechanism;"how&what" |
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| evolutionary significance:adaptive value;how does the behavior contribute to survival&reproduction |
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| People of animal behavior |
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Karl von Frisch:Bees
Niko Tinbergen: Fixed Action Patterns
Konrad Lorenz: Fly away home guy |
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| triggers innate behaviors |
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| an innate response that is always done the exact same way |
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| irreversible learning thats limited to a critical period in animals life;enhances fitness by enabling rapid learning |
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| sensitive phase for optimal imprinting |
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| When an animal associates a stimuli to a reward or punishment |
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| trial&error learning; associate behavior with reward or punishment, BF Skinner mouse box |
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| Pavlovian conditioning(dog&bell); associate a "neutral stimulus" with a "significant stimulus" Ivan Pavlov |
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| isn't limited to critical period, its when animals copy others |
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| change in direction; automatic movement toward or away from a stimulus; phototaxis, chemotaxis, rheotaxis |
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| change in rate of movement in response to a stimulus; random movement |
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| Internal representations of spatial relationships among objects in their surroundings |
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| interactions among members of a population |
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| some bee's do the waggle dance, birds&insects have songs |
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| threatening&submissive rituals,symbolic;usually no harm, directly affect an individual's evolutionary fitness |
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| social ranking within a group; pecking order |
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| working together in coordination; packs |
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| reduces individual fitness but increases fitness of recipient |
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| altruistic behavior; increases survival of relatives so that they can pass genes on to the next generation |
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| chemical signal that stimulates a response from other individuals; alarm&sex |
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