What is modified behavior based on previous experience or behavior?
100
Give 2 examples of organisms that migrate.
What are birds, mammals, fish, and/or insects?
100
Define Altruism
What is behavior at a cost to you with no benefit to you, but benefits another organism?
100
The higher the variance in offspring _____________________________.
What is the greater degree of sexual dimorphism?
200
Define Behavioral Ecology.
What is the study of how behavior contributes to differential survival and reproduction?
200
This is the simplest form of learning.
What is Habituation?
200
Define Migration.
What is the long-range seasonal movement usually linked to the season availability or resources?
200
This act lowers an individuals fitness, but increases the fitness of relatives.
What is Kin Selection?
200
Traits that are solely concerned with increasing mating success.
What is Sexual Selection?
300
What or How?
What are Proximate causes?
300
Who developed classical conditioning?
Who is Pavlov?
300
An animal follows a compass bearing, but also can adjust their path.
What is Navigation?
300
This is termed "The Ultimate Selfish Behavior".
What is infanticide?
300
This determines Mating Systems (general or 3 of the specifics).
What is the Environment?
Ability to defend resources.
Ability to defend mates.
Opportunity to defect after mating.
Opportunity to get/prevent extra pair copulation.
400
Why?
What are Ultimate Causes?
400
This form of learning is based on rewards and/or punishment.
What is Operant Conditioning?
400
List the 3 types of Migration Mechanisms.
What are Piloting, Orientation, and Navigation?
400
This mechanism would allow altruistic organisms to have an advantage over selfish organisms.
What is group selection?
400
Name the 4 Mating Types.
What are monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, polygamy?
500
Behaviors controlled by genetics.
What is INNATE?
500
Define Critical period (2 parts).
What is the time when many animals develop species-specific patterns of behavior that can not be learned past the CP?
500
The mechanism responsible for geomagnetic navigation.
What is iron oxide receptors in brain nerves and photopigments in the eyes?
500
Give 2 reasons why Individual selection is more likely than Individual selection.
Mutant individuals that use resources have an advantage over those that conserve resources.
Selfish individuals can immigrate from other areas.
Individuals can't predict food availability to conserve resources.
Most Evolutionary Biologists believe group selection contributes little to evolution.
500
Define Population.
What is a groups of interbreeding individuals occupying the same niche.