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Ecology AOL Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Learned Behavior | Not born with it, develops through experience |
| Innate Behavior | A behavior an animal is born with |
| Associative Learning | Associating one environmental feature with another |
| Habituation | Avoid wasting energy to irreIvelant stimuli |
| Imprinting | Both learned/innate, early-life learning/lasting attachment during critical period |
| Ethology | Study of animal behavior (mainly innate) |
| Proximate Questions | Mechanisms that produce behavior (HOW) |
| Ultimate Questions | Evolutionary significance of behavior (WHY) |
| Fixed Action Pattern | Innate behavior triggered by stimulus that goes until completion (can not be stopped) |
| Sign Stimulus | Triggers Fixed Action Patter, external |
| Homeostatic mechanism | Keeps conditions in body stable |
| Taxis | Moving towards/away from stimulus (photo = light, geo = gravity, chemo = chemicals) |
| Kinesis | Random movement depending on stimulus intensity |
| Photoperiodism | Reaction of organisms to periods of dark/nighttime |