Basic Animal Behavior Flashcards
4 basic reasons why animals behave
- To Find food
- To interact in social groups
- To avoid predators
- To reproduce
Animal behaviors usually are strategies for ___________.
Survival
Study of animal behavior
Ethology
The way an animal reacts to the certain stimulus with activity or inactivity
Behavior
Something that elicits a response
Stimulus
2 types of Stimuli and definition
External Stimulus(outside e.g sound, smell, sight etc.)
Internal Stimulus(inside e.g hunger, fatigue, feeling cold, hormones)
Attributing human emotions and need to be careful about ascribing human emotions to animals
Anthropomorphism
Social behavior occurs in every culture, genetically determined.
Cultural Universals
Systematic study of a biological bases of all social behaviors in animals.
Sociobiology
3 causes behavioral responses in animals
- Heredity(internal factors)
- Learning experiences(external factors)
- Intelligence(interaction of 1to2)
Give heredity produces response in several ways
Affects the growth and development of body parts such us sensory or motor organs
All animals have brain and domestic
Genes
Animals show fixed behavioral responses when subjected to certain environmental stimuli
Experience and learning
The ability of animals to learn to adjust successfully to environmental situations
Intelligence
4 types of learning in animals
- Habituation
- Conditioning(classical and operant)
- Insight Learning
- Imprinting
Animal learned not to respond to a stimulus e.g. “cry-wolf”
Habituation