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Bio Chapter 51 Vocan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aggressive behavior generally involving competition | Agonistic behavior |
| Behavior that reduces one's fitness while improving another's fitness | Altruism |
| "Classical conditioning" associating one stimulus with another | Associative learning |
| Study of how behavior develops and is associated with success | Behavioral ecology |
| Probability of shared genes between individuals | Coefficient of relatedness |
| Ability of a nervous system to perceive, store, and use sensory information | Cognition |
| Study of cognition and how it relates to animal behavior | Cognitive ethology |
| Representation of spatial relations between objects in the environment | Cognitive map |
| Ideas, customs, and skills of one group that are passed on to the next generation | Culture |
| Behavior carried to completion upon reception of a sign stimulus | FAP |
| Process of obtaining food | Foraging |
| Nash's theory where the success of one strategy depends on other strategies | Game theory |
| Learning to ignore irrelevant stimuli | Habituation |
| Altruism is only favored when the inclusive benefit outweighs the cost | Hamilton's rule |
| Learned attachment formed during a critical period | Imprinting |
| Aiding the survival of your genes by reproducing and aiding relatives | Inclusive fitness |
| Altruistic behavior that aids inclusive fitness | Kin selection |
| Random behavior, response neither towards or away from a stimulus | Kinesis |
| A point of reference in the environment used for navigation | Landmark |
| Selecting a mate based on the preferences of others | Mate-choice copying |
| Mating system involving one female and one male | Monogamous |
| Foraging that maximizes intake and minimizes risk | Optimal foraging theory |
| A chemical signal to members of the same species | Pheromone |
| Mating system involving one female mating with several male partners | Polyandry |
| Mating system involving one male mating with several female partners | Polygyny |
| "How" | Proximate |
| "Why" | Ultimate |
| Altruism performed with the expectation of aid in return | Reciprocal altruism |
| A critical period during which a particular behavior can be learned | Sensitive period |
| A stimulus that triggers a FAP | Sign stimulus |
| A behavior that causes a response in another individual | Signal |
| Behavior learned by absorbing others | Social learning |
| Study of social behavior and its evolutionary significance | Sociobiology |
| Modifying behavior based on the spatial structure of one's environment | Spatial learning |
| Behavior that is in direct responds towards or away from a stimulus | Taxis |
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