What is the learning that occurs during a specific time period and is generallly irreversible?
What is Imprinting
100
What is the animal's abiity to perceive, store, process, and use information from its sensory receptors?
What is Conigition
100
What is the interaction between two or more animals, usually of the same species?
What is Social Behavior
100
Which gender puts more parental investment into their offspring more often in nature?
What is Female
100
What is the intentional transimission of information between individuals using special behaviors?
What is Communication
200
What is when animals learn to associate one stimulus with another?
What is Associative learning
200
What are the internal representations of the spatial relationship of objects in an animal's surroundings?
What is Cognitive Maps
200
What is the area in which an animal may roam?
What is Home Range
200
What is the behavior patterns that lead up to copulation often consist of a series of displays by one or both partners?
What is Courtship
200
What is the indication that communication has occured?
What is a change in behavior
300
What is the loss of sensitivity to unimportant stimuli or to stimuli not associated with appropriate feedback?(Hint: increases fitness by allowing animal's nervous system to focus on important stimuli)
What is Habituation
300
What is the simple chnage in activity or turning rate in response to a stimulus(Hint: randomly directed, maintain organisms in favorable environment)
What is Kinesis
300
Vocal displays, scent marks, and patrolling are used to protect what?
What is Territory
300
Longer lasting relationships may be:(Hint: two answers)
What is Monogamous and Polygamous
300
What is the chemical signals commonly used by mamals and insects in reproductive behavior to attract mates and to trigger specific courtship behaviors?
What is Pheromones
400
Also knowWhat is when an animal associates a behavior with a reward or punishment?(Hint: a.k.a. trial and error learning)
What is Operant Conditioning
400
What is an oriented movement toward or away from a stimulus, usually performed automatically?
What is Taxis
400
The following are examples of: test of strength or more commonly, symbolic behaviors or rituals that serve to avoid actual physical conflict.
What is Agonistic behavior
400
What is mating with no strong pair bonds forming?
What is Promiscuous Mating
400
What is the behavior that reduces an individual's fitness while increasing the fitness of the recipeint?
What is Altriuism
500
What is the process of improved performance of innate behaviors that may result from neurouscular devlopment?
What is Maturation
500
What are the three mechanisms of migration?
What is Piloting, Orientation and Navigation
500
What prevents continual combat by establishing which animals get first access to resources?
What is the "pecking order" (Dominance hierarchies)
500
What is a polygamous relationship in which one female mates with many males?
What is Polyandrous
500
What is the term for natural selection of altriuistic behavior that enhances the reproductive success of related individuals?