Animal Behavior

What is behavior?

• Why an animal does something

• When an animal does something

• What an animal does and how it does it

What type of ecology is concerned with the genetic component that associates behavior with increased fitness?

• Human ecology

• Behavior ecology

• Environmental ecology

• Marine ecology

Which of these is NOT a question of causality?

• Psychological

• Adaptive Value

• Archaeology

• Physiological

Click the THREE options that are categories of behavior.

• Developmental

• Evolutionary

• Function

• Operant

This type of causation is the immediate cause of behavior

This type of causation is the evolutionary reason for behavior.

What do we call the trigger for a behavior?

• Behavior

• a loud noise

• Stimulus

• what something else does

What type of behavior is an organisms born with?

• Innate

• Learned

What type of learning is based on previous experience?

• Innate

• Learned

What is the word for a loss of responsiveness to a stimuli because of prolonged exposure?

• Imprinting

• Habituation

• Associative

• Cognitive