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4. Foraging Flashcards

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what is the search image theory

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As a forager increasingly encounters a particular prey, the ability to recognize the prey increases

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what are ways for animals to recognize prey easier

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Development of mental/sensory representation of prey; Response to cryptic prey; Search image may be linked to salient feature of prey or representation of entire prey item; new prey items is ignored until it becomes more prevalent

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which animals were used to test finding food and search image

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blue jays pecking at cryptic moths

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4
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what are three traditions of decision making research

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economics, psychology, and ecology

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what does the classical optimal foraging theory assume

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assumes that evolution has favored foraging strategies that maximize the rate of energy intake as a proxy of Darwinian fitness

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what are the assumptions in the economic models

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rational choice, self interest, stable preference over context and time

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what is utility

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utility is the degree of liking/preference based on expected value

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what is the equation if A is preferred to B

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U(A) > U(B)

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what is matching law

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Choice paradigm with concurrent schedules of positive reinforcement; Distribution of behavior/time responding is measure of choice

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what is under matching

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failure to match (receive maximum available reward)

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what is bias

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preference for large and immediate reward

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what is the history of optimal foraging theory

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Mathematical models of foraging decision; MacArthur and Pianka (1966) patchy food distribution

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what are the basic models of optimal foraging theory

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diet choice model; patch choice model; risk sensitivity model; stochastic dynamic programming; rules of thumb models

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what are deductive research tools used to explore the consequences of working under a given set of assumptions

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foraging models

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which model is the crow and whelk associated with

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foraging model

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what are the elements of a foraging model

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decision assumption; currency assumption; constraints

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17
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what is the decision assumption in the foraging model

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which of the forager’s problems are to be analyzed

18
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what is the currency assumption in the foraging model

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how are the various choices to be evaluated

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what are the constraints in the foraging model

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what limits the animal’s feasible choices and what limits the pay-off that may be obtained

20
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what are extrinsic constraints

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environmental conditions (seasons)

21
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what are intrinsic constraints

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how the animal lives

22
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what is a sequential sampling constraint

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typically encounter diet or patch items one at a time

23
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what is knowledge of environment constraint

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complete and accurate knowledge of food types, abundance and location

24
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what are the steps in building an optimal diet model

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explicit alternatives involving sequential encounters of prey items; compare fitness of the two alternative actions; specify assumptions and constraints under which animals make decisions

25
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what are the characteristics of a patch

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encounter rate (rich v poor patch); patch residency; gain function

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what is patch residency

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decision variable of time spent searching for food in patch

27
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what is patch gain function

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net energy “gain”, negatively accelerated function of patch depletion

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what are the steps in building an optimal patch residency model

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explicit alternatives involving patch exploitation; currency of fitness is same as diet model; specify assumptions and constrains

29
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steps to testing optimal patch residency model

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look for optimal residency time when density of patches in habitat changes or when average quality of patches changes; graphical solution

30
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which animal was used to test patch residency time

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great tits

31
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when patch density in habitat declines or travel cost increases what should an animal do

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forager should remain in patch and deplete them to a great extent

32
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when average patch quality in habitat increases what should a forager do

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foragers should spend less time exploiting each patch and deplete them to a lesser extent

33
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how is risk defined

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uncertainty of reward (loss and gain)

34
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what is state-dependent foraging

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hunger states 1) equal value of items 2) item’s worth decreases as animal becomes satiated 3) item’s worth increase due to high risk of starvation

35
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what is the energy budget rule

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forager below its energy budget should be risk prone, otherwise be risk averse; studies of operant analog of risk sensitive foraging compare V1 to F1 schedules of reinforcement

36
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what is Stochastic dynamic programming

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uses a common currency of lifetime fitness; foraging decision are state-dependent; capable of modeling trade-offs between competing activities; uses a decision trajectory to model patch choices over a finite time period

37
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descriptive models are decision rules that reflect what

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actual decision making mechanisms

38
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what are rule of thumb (ROT) models

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simple rules that animals follow to base their choice; research shows that ROT models can approximate optimality

39
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what model is based on architecture of interconnected neurons

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descriptive model

40
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What is the cognitive emotional forager model

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foraging decision are the balance of emotional states experienced when confronted with foraging decision made under risk of predation

41
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what are the three assumptions with optimal foraging

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forager uses knowledge of patch parameters; forager’s decision are based on energy reserves; foragers decision are time-dependent in that it knows the end of the foraging time cycle

42
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what does energy threshold model eliminate

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third assumption of optimal foraging

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