Understand that instinctive and learned behaviors have evolutionary and ecological significance.
Explain how instinctive and learned behaviors differ.
Describe the characteristics of animals in which instinctive behaviors predominate.
Describe the characteristics of animals in which learned behaviors have a dominant role.
Give examples of instinctive behaviors and state how you know they are instinctive.
Give examples of behaviors that have both instinctive and learned components.
Recognize that there are different kinds of learning.
Explain the nature and significance of habituation.
Describe the different kinds of association learning.
State the nature and significance of imprinting, exploratory learning, and insight.
Provide examples of human behaviors that illustrate habituation, association, imprinting, and insight.
Recognize the relationship between behavior patterns and the ecological niche of an organism.
Describe how territoriality and dominance hierarchies allocate resources.
Explain the adaptive value of specific behaviors such as communication, food storage, navigation, a time sense, care of the young, and hibernation in particular ecological settings.
Explain why the behavioral evolution of social animals is different from that of nonsocial animals.
