BIO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Menstrual Cycle, Simple Group, Kin Selection
24 Aug 2016
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Behavior is defined as any observable activity of a living animal: innate behavior: behavior without prior experience. Some innate behaviors may be modified by experience or habituation. Learning may be governed by innate constraints: learned behavior: requires experience. Habituation: a decline in response to a repeated stimulus; prevents animal from wasting energy on irrelevant stimuli. Operant conditioning: animals learn behaviors in response to a reward or to avoid punishment. Insight learning: problem solving without trial and error; sometimes animals can solve problems suddenly without any prior experience. Trial-and-error learning: animals acquire new and appropriate responses to stimuli through experience. Imprinting: a form of learning in which an animals nervous system is rigidly programmed to learn a certain thing only during a certain period of development. Communication: production of a signal by one organism that causes another to change its behavior: visual displays are most effective over short distances. Active visual signals: movement or posture that conveys a message.
