Behaviour Flashcards

Question

Is a state a behaviour pattern of long or short durations?

Answer 1

Where a whole group of animals are quickly scanned at regular intervals and the behaviour of each individual is recorded

Answer 2

How often/amount of times an animal displays a certain behaviour

Answer 3

Behavioural pattern of long durations

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Behavioural patterns of relatively short duration which can be seen as points in time

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Measuring the behaviour on the instant e.g. noting behaviour every 30 minutes

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Recording each occurrence of the behaviour with information about the time of the behaviour e.g. walking 1.33-1.43

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All behaviours of one individual are recorded in a specific time frame

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When you are recording the group of animals doing one behaviour at the same time

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A catalogue of the different behaviours observed in an animal

Answer 10

``` Choose your animal Make a list of behaviours you see Observe animals using notes videos and photos Put all info into the table Write codes for each behaviour if needed ```

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Provides animals with instinctive/ innate behaviours For example the animal is genetically predisposed to behave a certain way This behaviour is mainly fixed despite environment and parental influence

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Environment will shape this in the form of learning | Behaviour which is learnt either from parents sibling family or their environment

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An inborn pattern of behaviour this is characteristic of a species and is often a response to a specific environmental stimuli

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Is a behaviour that must be directly taught or learnt fro, experience. It will not be there when first exposed to stimuli

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Is leaning in which an animal comes to associate particular behaviours with the consequences they produce This tens to reinforce the behaviour, ie the behaviour is likely to be repeated if the consequences are pleasant and positive but not if they are negative and unpleasant

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When one animal can watch the actions of another and learn from those actions. This may be as simple as learning a location of a food source or learning a sequence of actions that needs to be taken in order to earn a reward. For example blue tits learnt to rob cream from the top of milk bottles during the early part of the 20th century

Answer 17

Animal culture describes the current theory of cultural learning in animals through socially transmitted behaviours. Culture is a process rather than an end produce. It involves the social transmittance of a novel behaviour both among peers and between generations. This behaviour is shared by a group of animals but not necessarily between separate groups of the same species

Answer 18

Social learning involves the transfer of information from a more experienced individual to a naive one. Social learning is fundamentally different from individual learning or asocial learning. Social learning is most beneficial in stable environments in which predators, food and other stimuli are not likely to change rapidly