Vocabulary
People
Experiments/Studies
Learning
Mating
100
the trigger for the behavior
What is a sign stimulus?
100
the questions and associated ideas of causation that underline behavioral ecology
Who is Tinbergen?
100
a male stickleback attacks other male sticklebacks that invade territory but also react to red trucks
What is a fixed action pattern?
100
To associate one environmental feature with another
What is associative learning?
100
has been studied in the guppy Poecilia reticulata
What is mate-choice copying?
200
the way the influence of genetics and environment on behavior can by explored
What is a twin study?
200
In classic experiments done in the 1930s demonstrated imprinting
Who is Lorenz?
200
minnows are widely dispersed in an aquarium until a minnow is injured by a substance which induced a fright response in the other fish
What is a pheromone in action?
200
Clark's nutcracker
What is a striking example of cognitive mapping?
200
no strong pair bonds
What is promiscuous?
300
food-obtaining behavior
What is foraging?
300
Russian physiologist that carried out experiments in classical conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
300
young greylag geese following a human as a parent
What is an example of imprinting?
300
the young imprint on their parent and learn the basic behaviors of their species, while parents learn the recognize its offspring
What happens during the sensitive period?
300
a single male and many females
What is polygyny?
400
the establishment of a memory that reflects the environment's spatial structure
What is spatial learning?
400
An american pioneer in the study of operant conditioning
Who is B. F. Skinner?
400
wasps learns visual landmarks that mark her nest
What is spatial learning?
400
has become an important component of efforts to save endangered species
What is imprinting?
400
the extent to which males and females differ in appearance
What is sexual dimorphism?
500
chemical substances that animals communicate through
What is a pheromone?
500
whom evaluated alternative strategies in situations where the outcome depends on the strategies of all the individuals involved
Who is John Nash?
500
a blue jay ingests and vomits a monarch butterfly and has learned to avoid this species
What is associative learning?
500
copying others
What is social learning?
500
when the mating success of each male lizard type is influenced by the relative abundance of the other types
What is frequency-dependent selection?
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