Chapter
Objectives
- Explain the difference
between innate and learned behaviors
- Describe the evolutionary
basis for behavioal ecoloty
- Explain the difference
between ultimate and porximate causations of behavior
- Describe a fixed-action
pattern and a sign stimulus
- Explain the nature versus
nurture controversy
- Explain the effect of
maturation on behavioral improvement
- Define habituation
- Discuss imprinting,
imprinting stimulus, and critical period
- Define associative learning
- Distinguish abmong classical
conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning
- Describe 2 hypotheses
for the evolution of play behavior
- Discuss the ultimate
bases of learning
- Describe and define
kinesis, taxis, and migration
- Explain the differences
among piloting, orientation, and navigation
- Compare generalist and
specialist foraging strategies
- Explain how a search
image is adaptive
- Describe optimal foraging
strategies in terms of energetics and prey densities
- Describe agonistic behavior
- Explain what is meant
by a ritual behavior and describe the evolutionary advantage
of ritual behavior
- Describe a dominance
hierarchy and explain the advantages to individuals in the
hierarchy
- Explain how dominance
hierarchies and territories may stabilize population densities
- Describe the advantages
of courtship
- Explain how ritualized
courtships may have evolved
- Define parental investment
- Discuss the untimate
bases for mate selection
- Compare anc contrast
the 3 main mating systems
- Describe the differences
between polygyny and polyandry
- Discuss how the nedds
of the young influence the development of mating systems
- Describe how the certainty
of paternity influences the development of mating systems
- Describe the various
modes of communication
- Relate an animal's mode
of communication to its lifestyle
- Discuss why altruistic
behavior migh evolve
- Define inclusive fitness
and kin selection
- Define reciprocal altruism
- Define cognitive ethology
- Describe the premise
of sociobiology
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