DEFINITIONS AND KEY POINTS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

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TERMS I DEFINITIONS
Behavior	The activities animals perform during their lifetime are called animal behavior.
Ethology	The study of animal behavior on the basis of evolution and the natural environment is called ethology.
Sociobiology	The study of the evolution of social behavior is called sociobiology
Proximate causes	More immediate ecological and physiological causes of behavior are called proximate causes. It includes eating to satisfy hunger .
Anthropomorphism	The application of human characteristics to anything not human is called anthropomorphism.
Maturation	Some – behavior patterns appear only after a specific developmental stage or time. This stage or time is called maturation. –
Instincts	The inherited behavior is called instincts.
Learning	The change of behavior by life experiences is called learning.
Habituation	The decrease in response to repeated or continuous stimulation is called habituation.
Classical conditioning	Pairing of an irrelevant stimulus with a natural primary stimulus that produces an automatic response is called classical conditioning.
instrumental conditioning	The trial and error learning is called instrumental

Insight Learning	The uses cognitive or mental processes to associate ---------------------------- ---------------------------- experiences and solve problems •are called insight learning.
Foraging behavior	The process of locating food resources is called foraging behavior.
Group	An aggregation of animals for some simple purpose like feeding, drinking, or mating is called group.
Animal Society	A stable group of individuals of the same species that maintains a cooperative social relationship is called animal society.
Agnostic behavior	The behavior in which one animal is aggressive or attacks another animal, the other responds by returning the aggression or submitting is called agnostic behavior.
Dominance hierarchies	The organization of group of animals in such a way that some members of the group have greater access to resources like food or mates than others is called dominance hierarchies.
Territory	The site defend by territorial animal by agnostic behavior is called territory of the animal.
Altruism	The interaction in which an individual gives up or sacrifices some of its own reproductive potential to benefit another individual is called altruism.

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