AP Biology Chapter 51: Behavioral Biology Vocabulary
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| 4756748302 | Ethology | the study of animal behavior in natural conditions. | 0 | |
| 4756748303 | Fixed action pattern (FAP) | a sequence of behavioral acts that is especially unchangeable and usually carried to completion once initiated. | 1 | |
| 4756748304 | Sign stimulus | a FAP that is triggered by an external sensory stimulus. | 2 | |
| 4756748308 | Learning | the modification of behavior (behavioral change) resulting from specific experiences. | 3 | |
| 4756748311 | Imprinting | learning that is limited to a specific time period in an animal's life and is generally irreversible; a learned behavior with a significant innate component, aired during a critical period. | 4 | |
| 4756748312 | Sensitive period | a limited phase in an individual animal's development when learning of particular behaviors can take place. | 5 | |
| 4756748313 | Associative learning | the ability of animals to associate one stimuli with another. ex.: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. | 6 | |
| 4756748314 | Classical conditioning | type of associative learning where the animal learns to associate an arbitrary stimulus with a reward or punishment. | 7 | |
| 4756748315 | Operant conditioning | type of associative learning where the animal learns to associate one of it's own behaviors with a reward or punishment. | 8 | |
| 4756748316 | Play | behavior that has no apparent external goal but involves movements closely associated with goal-directed behaviors. | 9 | |
| 4756748317 | Cognition | the ability of an animal's nervous system to perceive, store, process, and use information gathered by sensory receptors. Consciousness, or awareness. | 10 | |
| 4756748319 | Kinesis | a simple change in activity or turning rate in response to stimuli. | 11 | |
| 4756748320 | Taxis | movement toward or away from a stimulus. | 12 | |
| 4756748323 | Migration | regular movement over relatively long distances. | 13 | |
| 4756748326 | Agonistic behavior | a type of behavior involving a contest of some kind that determines which competitor gains access to some resource, such as food or mates. | 14 | |
| 4756748329 | Dominance hierarchy | a linier "pecking order" of animals, where positions dictate characteristic social behaviors. | 15 | |
| 4756748338 | Signal | a behavior that causes a change in behavior in another animal. | 16 | |
| 4756748341 | Altruism | behavior that reduces an individual's fitness while increasing the fitness of another individual. | 17 | |
| 4756748342 | Inclusive fitness | the total effect an individual has on proliferating its genes by producing its own offspring and by providing aid that enables other close relatives to increase the production of their offspring. | 18 |
