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sci vocab terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| External cue such as sunlight that resets the clock; German for time giver | Zeitgeber |
| The early circadian clock gene identified in fruit flies | Period |
| The early circadian clock gene identified in Neurospora crassa | Frequency |
| Rhythms by which aquatic animals track Moon-driven tides | Lunar rhythms |
| The specific trigger, such as the red spot on a gull’s beak | Sign stimulus |
| Simplest instinctive behavior, such as jumping at a loud noise | Startle reflex |
| Learning a survival -critical response only during an early critical period | Imprinting |
| Window in which a behavior must be learned or never can be | Critical period |
| Degree to which genes account for differences between individuals | Heritability |
| Learning about a single stimulus, sometimes with only a few neurons | Nonassociative learning |
| Using several kinds of sensory information to choose a behavior | Complex learning |
| Pairing a neutral stimulus with one that already produces a response | Classical conditioning |
| Model treating foraging as a contest whose payoff depends on the rival | Evolutionary game theory |
| Matrix in which an animal chooses to fight for or share a resource | Hawk -Dove game |
| Echolocation, in which the sender is also the receiver | Auto- communication |
| Ambiguous -cue test revealing whether an animal expects good or bad | Cognitive bias test |
| Heavy pre -migration feeding that lays down fat for the journey | Hyperphagia |
| Changes to migration caused by human activity | Anthropogenic effects |
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