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AP Bio Chapter 51

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Behavior   What an animal does and how it does it  
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Ethology   A research field that tries t understand how animals behave in their natural habitats  
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Fixed Action Pattern(FAP)   A sequence of behavioral patterns that is essentially unchanged and usually carried to completion once initiated  
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Sign Stimulus   Triggers a FAP and is usually some feature of another species  
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Behavioral Ecology   The expectation that animals increase their Darwinian fitness by optimal behavior  
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Search Image   A set of key characteristics that will lead an animal to a desired object  
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Optimal Foraging   The concept that natural selection will favor animals that choose foraging strategies that maximize the differential between benefits and cost  
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Learning   The modification of behavior from specific experience  
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Maturation   Changing of behavior because of ongoing developmental changes in neuromuscular system  
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Habituation   Type of learning that involves a loss of responsiveness to stimuli that convey little or no information  
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Imprinting   Learning that is limited to a certain time period in an animal's life and is generally irrevesable  
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Critical Period   Time when imprinting can take place  
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Associative learning   The ability of animals to associate one stimulus with another  
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Classical conditioning   Learn to associate an arbitrary stimulus with a reward or punishment  
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Operant conditioning   Trial and error learning  
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Play   Behavior that has no apparent external goal but involves movement closely associated with goal-directed behaviors  
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Cognition   The ability to perceive, process, and store information  
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Cognitive Ethology   The study of animal cognition  
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Cognitive maps   Internal representations, or codes, of the spatial relationships among objects in their surroundings  
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Kinesis   Simple change in an activity rate due to a stimulus  
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Taxis   More or less automated movement towards or away from a stimulus  
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Migration   Regular movement over relatively long distances  
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Sociobiology   Evolutionary theory as a basis for study and interpretation of social behavior  
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Agnostic behavior   A contest involving both threatening and sunmissive behavior to determine which competitor gain access to a resource, such as food or a mate  
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Ritual   The use of symbolic activity  
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Dominance Hierarchy   A clear "pecking order"  
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Parental Investment   Time and resources an individual must expend to produce offspring  
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Lek   A small area inhabited by males (birds and insects)  
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Promiscuous   No strong pair-bonds or lasting relationships  
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Monogogamous   One mate  
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Polygamous   Multiple mates  
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Polygyny   One male with many female mates  
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Polyandry   A single female with several male mates  
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Pheromones   Odors emit chemical signals  
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Inclusive fitness   Passing genes to offspring  
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Coefficient of relatedness   Quantitative measure of inclusive fitness  
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Kin selection   Increasing inclusive fitness  
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Reciprocal Altruism   Aided individuals return favors in the future  
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