Hon Bio-Ch 35-Behavior Ecology

What is Behavioral Ecology?

• the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals.

• the branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed

• the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures

• the natural science that involves the study of life and living organisms

What is Proximate Cause?

• evolutionary reasoning for an organism’s behavior

• the immediate, observable reasoning for an organism’s behavior

• an animals diet

• harrison frame

Learned Behaviors...(mark all that apply)

• Are learned by an animal’s interaction with the world

• Can be changed

• Can not be changed

• Can occur when an animal seeks to avoid or repeat a past experience

Instinctive (innate) behaviors... (mark all that apply)

• Are learned

• Are not learned

• Cannot be exchanged

• Passed down from parents

Which behavior is genetically based and not linked to past experiences?

• innate behavior

• habituation

• operant conditioning

• classiccal conditioning

__________ behaviors result from an interaction between innate behaviors and past experiences

• genetic

• innate

• hunting

• learned

This type of innate behavior occurs when an animal carries out a specific set of actions, in sequence, in response to a stimulus.

• imprinting

• habituation

• fixed action pattern

• classical conditioning

2.1.2 At night, moths travel toward light. Which type of behavior does this describe? 

• habituation 
• imprinting 
• innate behavior 
• learned behavior 

Behaviors that come from experiences; these behaviors are not present at birth

• Innate Behavior

• Learned Behavior

• Adaptation

• Estivation

Behaviors that are instinctive to organisms; these behaviors do not need to be taught.

• Migration

• Adaptation

• Learned Behaviors

• Innate Behaviors