Quinn Final Flashcards
(105 cards)
proximate
immediate sequence of physiological effects that lead to a behaviour
ultimate
adaptive value or evolutionary origins of the observed behaviour
deprivation experiment
prevents learning opportunities through isolation of the subject, if it still does the behaviour it means there is a genetic component
fixed action pattern
pattern appearing complete and played out to completion once activated by a simple sensory cue
sign stimulus
external stimulus that triggers the fixed action pattern
releaser cue
stimulus that signals from one individual to another
emlen funnels
used for birds, put them in it and tracks the way their feet are positioned so you can base where it wants to fly off that
microevolution
change in gene frequency over time
instinct
behaviour pattern that develops in individuals that get adequate nutrition and occurs when prompted the first time
learning
– usually adaptive change in an animal’s behaviour due to experience of that individual animal
habituation
repeated stimuli without appropriate feedback/unimportant stimuli
imprinting
structured learning or life-long learning
associative learning
association of stimuli to something else, 2 types
classical conditioning
pavlov’s dog
operant conditioning
trial and error
insight behaviour
correct behaviour the first time by reasoning
altruist
individual who behaves in a way to benefit others at some cost to itself
epidietic display
population assessing its size, takes into account the type of habitat they have if there are too many of them they don’t breed
population ecology
how and why the number of individuals in a population change over time
generation
avg. time between a mothers first offspring and her daughters first offspring
life table
summarizes the chance an individual survives and reproduces in a time interval over it’s life
survivorship
proportion of offspring produced that survived
cohort
group that is the same age
type 1 survivorship curve
survivorship throughout life is high, most reach the max life span (humans)