LIFESCI 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Learning, Circadian Rhythm, Operant Conditioning
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Evolutionary history: causation and development are mechanistic explanations for behavior, adaptive function and evolutionary history provide evolutionary explanations of how natural selection has shaped a behavior. 45. 2 genes and behaviors: innate behaviors: behaviors that are instinctive and carried out regardless of earlier experience. Part of the animal"s nature: learned behavior: behaviors that are developed based on an individual"s experience. Part of the animal"s nurture: displays: patterns of behavior that are species specific and tend to be highly repeatable and similar from one individual to the next. Natural selection has favored display behaviors that are unmistakable in their function as signals. Fixed action pattern (fap): a sequence of behaviors that once triggered, is followed through to completion. Supernormal stimulus: initiates an exaggerated fap in an individual. Feature detectors: stimulus recognition is carried out by these specialized sensory receptors or groups of sensory receptors that respond to important signals. 45. 3 learning: learning: behavioral changes due to a growth in experience.
