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animal behavior - Answer the scientific study of what animals do behavior - Answer self-initiated movement, or the movement of animals controlled by their nervous system ethology - Answer the evolution and function of behavior - EUROPE comparative psychology - Answer the mechan...

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WCU PSY 335 Prep Exam 1 Questions
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animal behavior - Answer the scientific study of what animals do



behavior - Answer self-initiated movement, or the movement of animals controlled by their nervous
system



ethology - Answer the evolution and function of behavior - EUROPE



comparative psychology - Answer the mechanism and development of behavior - USA



comparative method - Answer a procedure for testing evolutionary hypotheses based on comparisons
among species of known evolutionary relationships



fixed action pattern (FAP) - Answer an innate learned behavior that is stereotyped, independent of
immediate control, genetically encoded & independent of individual learning



sign stimulus - Answer the thing that causes the fixed action pattern



Morgan's Cannon - Answer "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a
higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of one which stands lower in the
psychological scale"



anthropomorphism - Answer attributing human traits and emotions to animals



causation (comparative psychology) - Answer what are the mechanisms that cause a behavior?

, development/ontogeny (comparative psychology) - Answer how does the behavior develop and change
over the life of the organism



function (ethology) - Answer how does the behavior promote an organism's ability to survive and
reproduce



evolution/phylogeny (ethology) - Answer how does the behavior compare with that of other closely
related species? What are the origins of the behavior? What changes have occurred during the history of
the species?



proximate questions - Answer processes within an animals lifetime - causation, development/ontogeny
- "how" questions



ultimate questions - Answer processes that occur across generations - function, evolution/phylogeny -
"why" questions



natural selection - Answer occurs when variants of a trait that best suit an organism to its environment,
and that are heritable, increase in frequency over evolutionary time



individual learning - Answer a relatively permanent change in behavior in one individual as a result of
experience



cultural transmission - Answer the transfer of information from individual to individual through
teaching or social learning within or between generations



social learning - Answer learning via the observation of others



observation - Answer information gathering studies in which the main goal is to carefully describe how
organisms behave, particularly in natural settings



correlation - Answer the relationship between two variables

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