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Chapter 59: Animal Behavior


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Chapter 59: Animal Behavior

p. 1194: proximate causation, ultimate causation, nature, nurture, ethology, behavioral genetics, behavioral neuroscience, psychology, innate, stereotyped, sign stimulus (key stimulus), innate releasing mechanism, fixed action pattern

p. 1195: transduction

p. 1196: neuroethology, escape response, dorsal flexion neurons, ventral flexion neurons, cerci

p. 1198: comparative psychologists, learning, nonassociative learning, habituation, reinforcement, sensitization, associative learning, conditioned, classical conditioning (Pavlovian conditioning), operant conditioning, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus

p. 1199: Skinner box, trial-and-error learning, learning preparedness, spatial memory, hippocampus

p. 1200: imprinting, filial imprinting, sensitive phase, critical period, sexual imprinting, cross-fostering

p. 1201: genetic template, brood parasites, sonograms

p. 1202: motivational state, mood, drive, syrinx, behavioral endocrinology

p. 1203: endogenous rhythms, exogenous timers, circadian rhythms, biological clock, free-running, per gene, clock gene, suprachiasmatic nuclei, melatonin, pineal gland, circannual behaviors

p. 1204: stimulus/response chain, conspecific, species-specific, dewlap, pheromones

p. 1205: bombykol, level of specificity

p. 1206: alarm call, alarm pheromones, trail pheromones, dance language, waggle dance

p. 1208: taxis, positive phototaxis, negative phototaxis, kineses (singular, kinesis), migrations, orientation, navigation

p. 1209: magnetite

p. 1210: cognitive behavior

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