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| 213777023 | 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. | |
| 213777024 | Altruism | Behavior that reduces an individual's fitness while increasing the fitness of another individual. | |
| 213777025 | Associative Learning | The acquired ability to associate one stimulus with another; also called classical conditioning. | |
| 213777026 | Behavior | Everything an animal does and how it does it. | |
| 213777027 | Behavioral Ecology | Studying how such behavior is controlled and how it is developed. | |
| 213777028 | Classical Conditioning | A type of associative learning; the association of a normally irrelevant stimulus with a fixed behavioral response. | |
| 213777029 | Coefficient of Relatedness | The probability that a particular gene present in one individual will also be inherited from a common parent or ancestor in a second individual. | |
| 213777030 | Cognition | The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating of an animal. | |
| 213777031 | Cognitive Ethology | The scientific study of cognition; the study of the connection between data processing by nervous systems and animal behavior. | |
| 213777032 | Cognitive Map | A representation within the nervous system of spatial relations between objects in an animal's environment. | |
| 213777033 | Communication | Animal behavior involving transmission of, reception of, and response to signals. | |
| 213777034 | Culture | The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. | |
| 213777035 | Ethology | The study of animal behavior in natural conditions. | |
| 213777036 | Fixed Action Pattern | A sequence of behavioral acts that is essentially unchangeable and usually carried to completion once initiated. | |
| 213777037 | Foraging | Behavior necessary to recognize, search for, capture, and consume food. | |
| 213777038 | Game Theory | The study of how people behave in strategic situations. | |
| 213777039 | Habituation | A very simple type of learning that involves a loss of responsiveness to stimuli that convey little or no information. | |
| 213777040 | Hamilton's Rule | The principle that for natural selection to favor an altruistic act, the benefit to the recipient, devalued by the coefficient of relatedness, must exceed the cost to the altruist. | |
| 213777041 | Imprinting | A type of learned behavior with a significant innate component, acquired during a limited critical period. | |
| 213777042 | 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. | |
| 213777043 | Innate Behavior | Developmentally fixed (born with it). | |
| 213777044 | Kin Selection | A phenomenon of inclusive fitness, used to explain altruistic behavior between related individuals. | |
| 213777045 | Kinesis | A change in activity or turning rate in response to a stimulus. | |
| 213777046 | Landmark | A point of reference for orientation during navigation. | |
| 213777047 | Learning | A behavioral change resulting from experience. | |
| 213777048 | Mate Choice Copying | Behavior in which individuals in a population copy the mate choice of others, apparently as a result of social learning. | |
| 213777049 | Monogamous | A type of relationship in which one male mates with just one female. | |
| 213777050 | Operant Conditioning | A type of associative learning in which an animal learns to associate one of its own behaviors with a reward or punishment and then tends to repeat or avoid that behavior; also called trial-and-error learning. | |
| 213777051 | Optimal Foraging Theory | The basis for analyzing behavior as a compromise of feeding costs versus feeding benefits. | |
| 213777052 | Pheromone | In animals and fungi, a small molecule released into the environment that functions in communication between members of the same species. In animals, it acts much like a hormone in influencing physiology and behavior. | |
| 213777053 | Polyandry | A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males. | |
| 213777054 | Polygamous | A type of relationship in which an individual of one sex mates with several of the other. | |
| 213777055 | Polygyny | A polygamous mating system involving one male and many females. | |
| 213777056 | Promiscuous | A type of relationship in which mating occurs with no strong pair-bonds or lasting relationships. | |
| 213777057 | Proximate Question | How questions. | |
| 213777058 | Sensitive Period | A limited phase in an individual animal's development when learning of particular behaviors can take place. | |
| 213777059 | Sign Stimulus | An external sensory stimulus that triggers a fixed action pattern. | |
| 213777060 | Signal | A behavior that causes a change in behavior in another animal. | |
| 213777061 | Social Learning | Modification of behavior through the observation of other individuals. | |
| 213777062 | Sociobiology | The study of social behavior based on evolutionary theory. | |
| 213777063 | Spatial Learning | Modification of behavior based on experience of the spatial structure of the environment. | |
| 213777064 | Taxis | Movement toward or away from a stimulus. | |
| 213777065 | Ultimate Question | Why questions. | |
| 213777066 | Reciprocal Altruism | Altruistic behavior between unrelated individuals, whereby the current altruistic individual benefits in the future when the current beneficiary reciprocates. |
