Adaptive Value
A type of information that that can make an organism change its behavior.
What is a stimulus? (plural, stimuli)
Spiders knowing how to build webs perfectly and piglets knowing how to suckle from their mother the moment they are born is this type of behavior.
What is innate behavior?
It is advantageous for grazing mammals to gather in groups because groups can do this.
What is offer greater protection from predation?
An innate and learned response to the first thing and organism sees move after birth. Birds are most widely known for doing this.
What is imprinting?
Fireflies glow to attract mates.
What is a visual signal?
Animals with more successful behavior tend to survive and have more of this.
What is offspring?
Acquiring changes in behavior during one's lifetime is said to be this.
What is learning?
This type of learning shows that animals behave in a certain way through repeated practice to receive a reward or punishment. For example, teaching a dog a trick for a treat.
What is operant conditioning?
Animals, like pigs, have this type of stomach.
What is monogastric?
Dogs lick their pups to bond, clean, and stimulate their development.
What is a tactile signal?
Many adaptive behaviors help an animal survive and pass these on to the next generation.
What is genetics?
During this learning a stimulus comes to produce a particular response through a positive or negative experience, such as a bear relating food to a cooler.
What is classical conditioning?
These are two main advantages of being able to learn.
What are survival and reproduction?
Food that leaves the stomach is called this.
What is chyme?
A male whale uses song to communicate with females.
What is an auditory signal?
The body's need of sleep is run by this response to periodic changes in the daily environment.
What is circadian rhythm?
Animals instinctively frightened away by a fake owl learn to ignore the owl if it never moves. This learned behavior is an example of this.
What is HABITuation?
Ivan Pavlov's experiment that caused a dog to salivate as if it was seeing food when it heard a bell ring is an example of this.
What is classic conditioning?
These blood vessels in the heart receive blood.
What are atria?
Cats rub against objects to mark them with their scent (pheromones).
What is a chemical signal?
Two ways behavior adaptations can benefit animals over many generations.
What are ability to survive and ability to reproduce?
Both of these things affect an animal's behavior.
What are genes and environment?
This learning is most complicated and occurs when an animal applies something it has already learned to a new situation.
What is insight learning?
The liver does this to function.
What is filter blood and toxins?
This is acting to promote someone else's well being at the risk of your own.
What is altruism?