Behavioral biology Flashcards
What are the 4 levels of animal behavior?
- Physiology
- Ontogeny
- Phylogeny
- Adaptive significance
What is physiology?
How a behavior is influenced by physiological factors.
What is ontogeny?
How a behavior develops in an individual.
What is phylogeny?
A behaviors evolutionary origin in a group of related species.
What is adaptive significance?
A behaviors role in survival and fitness.
What is ethology?
The study of the natural history of behavior.
Ethology focuses on what behavior?
Innate Behavior
What is a key stimulus?
Individuals respond in stereotyped ways to particular stimuli.
Present paths in a nervous system result in?
Fixed Action Pattern
What is habituation?
The simplest form of learning where an animal becomes conditioned not to respond to a stimulus that has no positive or negative consequences.
What is associative learning?
Changes in behavior through association of two stimuli or between a stimulus and a response.
Instinct guides what?
Learning
What is imprinting?
Behavioral development, also called “phase sensitive learning”. It happens at a particular phase in development.
Successful reproduction depends on what?
Depends on signals and responses
Communication is adaptive for what?
For survival
