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| The study of animal behavior. |
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| What is at the heart of the modern approach to analysis of an animal's behavior? |
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| The problem of description. |
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| What are two types of descriptions? |
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| Empirical and functional. |
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| What was the example used to distinguish empirical from functional. |
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| Bottles and their various functions. I.e. Milk bottle. |
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| You should describe on a ______________________, in an __________________, so that your observations may be __________________________. |
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| strictly empirical basis, objective way, duplicated by others. |
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| The analysis of behavior falls into two categories of data: |
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| describing and quantifying the data. |
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| What does one measure to quantify behavior? |
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| Why is it sometimes better to record durations instead of frequencies? |
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| Because some movements are too short, like the flutters of a hummingbird's wings. |
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| What will be done in all cases with your data? |
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| It will be measured in a quantitative manner. |
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| What are the categories of responses? |
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| Simple physiological responses, simple mechanical adjustments, multi-step response patterns and modified response patterns. |
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| Simple physiological responses |
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| Most responses, like the ability to modify transpiration rates in plants or blinking in animals. |
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| Simple mechanical adjustments |
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| Changes in body orientation or movement of the organism. |
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| Simple mechanical adjustments may be classified as |
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| Positive (toward) or negative (away) from the source of the stimulus. |
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| What are the three types of simple mechanical adjustments? |
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| Tropisms, Taxis, Kinesis. |
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| Turning movements of either major parts or the entire organism. |
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| Movement of animals towards, away from, or at angles to the stimulus. |
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| Wandering or random movement from an intense stimulus. |
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| Multi-step response patterns |
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| Complex behavior patterns with a set sequence. |
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| Modified response patterns |
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| The generalization and improvisation of movements of higher vertebrates species |
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| What must one be careful about in regards to modified response patterns? |
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| To not anthropomorphize animals behavior. |
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| What organisms are being studied in this lab? |
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| Crickets, guppies, schooling fish, Brine shrimp. |
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| What is the difference between male and female crickets? |
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| Females have long ovipositors extending out of their abdomens and males do not. |
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| What are two suggested topics for studying cricket behavior? |
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| Territoriality and Sexual Behavior |
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| How is territoriality studied? |
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| Set up a matchbox in the corner and introduce crickets. |
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| How is sexual behavior studied? |
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| Expose a male cricket to a female cricket. |
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| What do male guppies look like? |
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| Smaller, with enlarged, brightly colored tails. |
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| What do female guppies look like? |
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| Larger in uniform silver color. |
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| What do pregnant guppies look like? |
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| Swollen, with dark coloration anterior to the anal fin. |
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| Two behaviors that should be observed in males is: |
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| The sigmoid display and the lowering of the male gonopodium. |
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| What should you never do to guppies? |
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| Expose the to tap water, which would kill them by means of Chlorine. |
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| What should you do with Aged Water after use? |
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| What is schooling behavior? |
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| When members of the group orient themselves in the same direction and move as a cohesive unit. |
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| How do schooling species look? |
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| They have bright coloration or markings to serve as a stimulus to promote following. |
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| How are Brine shrimp commonly known as? |
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| How will you observe Brine shrimp? |
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| Under a dissecting microscope in a watch glass. |
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| What are you going to test the Brine shrimp for? |
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| How will you test the Brine shrimp for a phototactic response? |
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| By wrapping one half of the vial and exposing the other half to light to observe their movements. |
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