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| 1. | An individual from one sex mates with several of the other |
| 7. | Chemical substances used by animals to communicate. Most often utilized by mammals and insects and usually used for reproduction |
| 8. | A change in activity or turning rate in response to a stimulus |
| 9. | Provided by the outside work, something to which a response will be directed (e.g. Konrad Lorenz in his greylag geese experiment) |
| 10. | A loss of responsiveness |
| 11. | The idea that a gene can proliferate itself throughout a population by causing an individual to behave altruistically in helping members of the same species that it is closely related to (who also have that gene) reproduce. |
| 12. | A contest that determines which competitor gains access to a certain resource, often food or a mate |
| 15. | A sequence of unlearned acts that is essentially unchangeable and, once initiated, usually carried out to completion. Directly linked to simple stimuli. |
| 16. | The process of knowing represented by awareness, reasoning, recollection, and judgement |
| 17. | Behavior consistently observed in a species that is developmentally fixed (instinct) |
| 19. | The mechanistic explanation of “how” a behavior (or other aspect of an organism’s biology) occurs or is modified; that is, how a stimulus elicits a behavior, what physiological mechanisms mediate the response, and how experience influences the response. |
| 21. | The scientific study of how animals behave, esp. in their natural environments. |
| 23. | The process of relating one situation to another. |
| 24. | An oriented movement toward (positive) or away from (negative) some stimulus. |
| 25. | A representation in the nervous system of the spatial relationships between objects in an animal's surroundings. |
| 26. | Through learning, an organism changes its behavior based on experiences and its environment |
| 27. | The evolutionary explanation of “why” a behavior (or other aspect of an organism’s biology) occurs, that is, the benefit to survival and reproduction or the evolutionary significance of the behavioral act. |
| 28. | Mated individuals remain together for a longer time, forming stronger pair-bonds |