Key terms
A detectable change in the environment
What is a stimulus?
A behaviour present at birth.
What is innate behaviour?
Directional movement towards or away from a stimulus.
What is taxis?
Photo-
What is light?
A goose rolling an object placed outside of its nest into the nest until completion.
What is a fixed action pattern?
The reaction to a stimulus.
What is a response?
A behaviour developed through experience.
What is learned behaviour?
Non-directional change in movement.
What is kinesis?
Chemo-
What are chemicals?
An eastern hognose snake playing dead and emitting a rotten smell
What is instinct?
The ability to survive and reproduce.
What is fitness?
Spider web construction is this type of behaviour.
What is innate behaviour?
Movement towards light.
What is positive phototaxis?
Gravi/Geo-
What is gravity?
What are some examples of instinctual behaviour?
migration, hibernation, torpor
A structure that detects a stimulus.
What is a receptor?
The process that favours beneficial behaviours.
What is natural selection?
A cockroach running away from light is an example of...
negative phototaxis
Thigmo-
What is touch?
Which of Tinbergen's four questions relates to the stimuli that triggers the behaviour and the process that responds to it?
An advantage that improves survival or reproduction.
What is an adaptive advantage?
This is an advantage of learned behaviour because it allows organisms to respond to environmental change.
What is adaptability?
What is the favourable stimulus of louse?
What is high humidity?
Rheo-
What is current?
Which Tinbergen question relates to how the behaviour affects fitness, chance of survival and reproduction?
Bonus for 100: Identify if it's proximate (what individual org are like) or ultimate (how populations came to be the way they are)
Function - Ultimate!