BIOLOGY 1M03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 51: Critical Period, Sex Change, Classical Conditioning

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Behaviour an action; the response to a stimulus. Ecology the study of how organisms interact with their physical and biological environments. Behavioural biology the study of how organisms respond to particular stimuli from their physical and. Proximate (mechanical) causation explains how actions occur in terms of the neurological, hormonal and skeletal-muscular mechanisms involved. Ultimate (evolutionary) causation explains why actions occur, based on their evolutionary consequences and history. Efforts to explain behaviour at the proximate and ultimate levels are complementary to understand what an organism is doing, biologists want to know how the behaviour happens and why. Learning change in behaviour that results from a specific experience in the life of an individual. Innate behaviour behaviour that is inherited and shows little variation based on learning or the individuals condition. Fixed action patterns (faps) highly inflexible behaviour patterns: stereotyped performed in the same way every time, usually triggered by releasers or sign stimuli (simple stimuli)

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