PSYC 3280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Basal Metabolic Rate, Heritability, Magnetite

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3280
• Professor: Suzanne MacDonald

Document Summary

Habitat choice: how animals distribute themselves in space and time with respect to some resource in their environment (food, mates, refuge from predators) Individuals will attempt to choose habitat and birth/raise their offspring in areas low in infection and disease. Stress hormones and spatial memory in rats: high levels of glucocorticoid hormones (stress hormones) interfere with individuals" spatial memory skills (ability to locate their habitat) Territoriality and learning: conspecific cueing- individuals learn what territory qualities are best from their interactions with others, individuals will choose territories that have been previously occupied as they indicate the presence of favorable resources. Increase of familial territory size provides a male with his own smaller territory, creating a form of inheritance (its own form of budding) Migration: migration may be an obligatory annual behaviour, or may only occur when conditions become poor (irruptive migration)