Basics
An action carried out by muscles under control of the nervous system.
Behavior
Behavior that is developmentally fixed and nearly all individuals in a population behave alike.
Innate Behavior
Animals learning what the surrounding environment contains like where is the food, water, shelter or hazards.
Spatial Learning
A peacock mates with more than one partner, is monogamous or polygamous?
Polygamous
A duckling following their mother everywhere they go is an example of what?
Imprinting
A trigger for a behavior
Stimulus
An internal mechanism that maintains a 24-hour activity rhythm or cycle. Ex: Sleepiness
Circadian Clock
The ability to associate one environmental feature with another. Certain color → bad taste
Associative Learning
3 male birds fighting for 1 female to mate with is an example of an Intersexual or Intrasexual mating system?
Intrasexual
An animal lowers its own fitness to increase the fitness of the animals around it.
Altriusm
The transmission reception of signals between animals.
Communication
Behavioral rhythms linked to the yearly cycle of seasons. Ex: Migration
Circannual Rhythm
Process of learning through observing others.
Social Learning
A guppy choosing a less orange male because it saw another female do the same is called what?
Mate-Choice Copying
Chemicals emitted for communication.
Pheromones
Modification of behavior as a result of experiences
Learning
A regular, long distance change in location controlled by circannual rhythm.
Migration
Establishment of a long-lasting attachment to a certain individual or object.
Imprinting
What is it called when a single female mates with multiple males?
Polyandry
The behavior exhibited when two spiders fight over a mate.
Agnostic Behavior
Process of learning involving awareness, reasoning, recollection, and judgment.
Cognition
A sequence of unlearned acts directly related to a simple stimulus, essentially unchangeable and carried to completion. Similar to a reflex.
Fixed Action Pattern
Representation of an animal’s nervous system with the spatial relationships between objects and its surroundings.
Cognitive Map
Systematic differences in appearance between males and females.
Sexual Dimorphism
Behaviors of populations of species are influenced by the unique _____ of each species.
Culture