ZOOLOGY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Konrad Lorenz, Behavioral Ecology, Habituation
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The focus is on the evolutionary significance of a behavior. Success in evolutionary terms = passing on your genes organism s. Behavioral ecology focuses on two causes of proximate causes. Genes and the environment regulate behavior: in only a very few cases is behavior due entirely to genes (nature), or entirely to the environment (nurture) Is called innate behavior and is under strong genetic influence. 55. 1: the stimulus that initiates a fap. Learning a modification of behavior based on previous experience. Decrease in response to a stimulus due to. Associative learning - association develops between stimulus and response. Classical conditioning: c lassical conditioning involuntary response becomes associated positively or negatively with a stimulus that did not originally elicit the response, before conditioning, before conditioning, during conditioning, after conditioning. 4/14/09: o perant conditioning animal"s behavior reinforced by a consequence (reward or punishment) 55. 3: behavior is often a mix of genetics and learning.
