Bio Flashcards
(187 cards)
Reticular Activating System?
Sleep-wake transitions, behavioral motivations.
Fixed Action Patterns Include?
Innate responses, and releasers
Daily cycles of behavior?
Cricardian Rhythms
Habituation
Suppression of normal startle responses to stimuli.
Classical Conditioning also called?
Pavlovian, Conditioned Reflex
Reward or reinforcement what type?
Operant or instrumental conditioning
BF Skinner experiments included?
+,- reinforcement, punishment, habit family hierarchy.
Imprinting?
Behavior presented in critical period of development.
Songs, calls, intentional behavior changes are?
Displays (Repro, agonistic, antagonistic)
Dominant over subordinate when disputations arise?
pecking order
Reversible behavior change in recipient?
Releaser Pheromones (sex-attract, toxic defense, alarm)
long term behavioral or physical change in recipient?
Primer Pheromones
Population?
Organisms same species living together
Community
Different populations (plant, animal) interacting in given environment.
Ecosystem
Includes communities and environment (abiotic, biotic)
Biosphere
portions of planet that support life (atmosphere, litho-, hydro-)
Factors of Substratum (in soil)
PH, Loams (mixed soil), Minerals, Humus (amount of decay), texture
Niche
Functional role of organism, no two species can ever have same niche
Symbiosis Types?
obligatory, commensalism, Mutualism, Parasitism
One or both organisms cannot survive without the other.
Obligatory Symbiosis
Benefit and Not affected? (Remora & Shark)
Commensalism (barnacle, whale)
Both organisms derive benefit (Rino Bird)
Mutualism
One organism benefits at expense of other
Parasitism
Carnivores and Herbivores (feed on other living)
Predators