BIOL 1541L Chapter Notes - Chapter 33: Sociobiology, Sexual Selection, Pair Bond
6 Apr 2017
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Behavior: represents the way that an organism reacts to a stimulus or situation. Ability to react to a stimulus is an important characteristics of life. The nature of behavior plays an important role in our understanding of life. Then nervous and endocrine systems are both responsible for the coordination of body systems. Learning: de ned as a durable change in behavior brought about by experience. Imprinting: considered a simple form of learning, although it has a strong genetic component we well. Associative learning: a change in behavior that involves an association between 2 events. Both classical conditional and operant conditioning are examples. Classical conditioning: presentation of 2 different types of stimuli at the same time causes an animal to form an association between them. Other form a society in which members of the species are organized in a cooperative manner, extending beyond sexual and parental behavior. Communication: a signal by a sender that in uences the behavior of a receiver.
