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Focuses on instinctual/innate behaviors
Uses natural/semi-natural environments
Minimal level of control of animals |
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Focuses on acquired/learned behaviors
Experimental/non-natural settings
Strict control |
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Genetic and physiological mechanisms that underlie behavior
Examine behavior in ecological AND evolutionary contexts
Adaptationist approach
Observational and experimental |
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How an animal performs a behavior
Development of behavior over lifetime |
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What is the behavior for
Evolutionary history of the behavior |
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Different species raised in identical environments
Examines behavioral differences
Works to remove environmental influence in behaviors |
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Transferring newly born/hatched young of one species to a nest of another
Tests genetic vs learned behaviors |
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| Making a gene or genes inoperative |
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Retention of information acquired from past experiences
Modification of behaviors based on one's experiences |
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A change in behavior as a result of experience
Allows individuals to adapt to environmental changes |
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| Anything that increases the probability of a behavior |
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| Decreases the likelihood of a behavior |
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| Behavior that is always performed to completion |
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| Innate Releasing Mechanism |
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| Controls the behavior performed in fixed action patterns |
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| Trigger that induces behavior |
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| Inhibitory Post Synaptic Potential (IPSP) |
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Decreases action potential
Hyperpolarization; Decreases voltage reducing action potential |
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| Excitatory Post Synaptic Potential (EPSP) |
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Increases action potential
Depolarization; Increases voltage increasing action potential |
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| Central Pattern Generator |
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Neural circuits that produce self-sustaining patterns of behavior
Responsible for fixed action potentials
Examples: breathing, heart beat, etc. |
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| Ad Libitum Sampling Method |
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| Observe and record behaviors to find a study subject |
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| Focal Animal Sampling Method |
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| Following one individual for and extended period of time |
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| Observe all organisms of a population |
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| Continuous Sampling Method |
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Watch continuously observing all behaviors
Good for observing event based behaviors |
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| Instantaneous Sampling Method |
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Observation of a specific behavior at a specific time of a fixed interval
Good for observing State based behaviors |
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Variables must be controlled and manipulated
Measures response to variables |
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| Variables are still present but are not manipulated |
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