Behavior
Communication
Learning
Tinbergen's Four Questions
Influential Scientists
100
A reaction to a stimulus.
What is response?
100
An area where an animal lives and protects.
What is a territory?
100

This type of stimulus causes exaggerated behavior

Supernormal stimulus

100
This question asks what physiological mechanisms cause the behavior

Causation

100

Came up with four questions to describe the how and why of animal behavior

Tinbergen

200

Animals do this kind of behavior without thinking. They do now have to learn how to do it.

Innate

200
Animals compete for these things: food, water, space, shelter, and mates.
What are limited resources?
200

This type of learning occurs in the absence of any particular outcome

Non-associative learning

200

This question asks how a behavior developed

Development

200

Naturalist known for her artistic talents (drawing animals)

Maria Sibylla Merian

300
Wolves are _________ of the elk. They eat the elk as prey.
What are predators?
300
How animals talk with each other, or tell each other things.
What is communication?
300

Form of non-associative learning that is the enhancement of a response to stimulus by presenting a strong stimulus first

Sensitization

300

This question asks how a behavior promotes an individual's ability to survive and reproduce

Adaptive Function

300

Researcher who worked with insects and studied animal behavior

Charles Henry Turner

400
Something you learn how to do, like tying your shoes or playing a game.
What is learned behavior?
400
When a baby animals thinks the first animal it sees is it's mother.
What is imprinting?
400

Associative learning is also called ____

Conditioning

400

This question asks how a behavior has evolved over time

Evolutionary History

400

This scientist is known as the father of evolution and studied the mystery of altruism

Charles Darwin

500
When two or more animals are fighting for the same resources in order to survive.
What is competition?
500

These chemicals created by the body can trigger certain behaviors

Hormones

500

This type of conditioning involves a novel, undirected behavior that becomes more or less likely over time

Operant Conditioning

500

If a scientist was studying the mechanisms that cause birds to migrate, which question are they studying?

Causation

500

Honey bee behaviorist who decoded the dance "language" of bees

Karl vol Frisch

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