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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.







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