Game Theory
Across
- 2. The term given to the concept that benefits received by each individual through altruism outweigh the costs of the altruistic act
- 7. The type of strategy in which any given individual can play more than one game
- 8. The type of game in which the payoff also depends on the individual playing the strategy
- 9. Each ____ in a payoff matrix represents the outcome of an encounter between individuals playing each strategy
- 10. Altruism allows individuals to increase success of its ________
- 11. Net benefits or losses to all players are possible
- 12. These organisms are great candidates for reciprocal altruism
- 14. True or False: The game theory explicitly incorporates environmental effects on traits
- 15. This type of altruism involves the permanent loss of direct fitness
- 17. The two types of games
- 19. This type of altruism involves the temporary loss of direct fitness
- 20. The type of relationships that altruism behaviors are most common in
- 21. The table that shows the outcomes of conflicts between strategies
Down
- 1. Which does ESS stand for?
- 3. The model for reciprocal altruism
- 4. True or False: A mixed ESS causes the payoffs to different strategies to be unequal
- 5. A gain to one player requires an equivalent loss to another player
- 6. The theory that is a game in which animal "strategies" , defined mathematically, are set to play against one another
- 13. Behavior by an individual that increases the fitness of another individual while decreasing the fitness of the actor
- 16. The type of strategy where any given individual plays only one strategy
- 17. The type of game in which the payoff of a given strategy depends only on the opposing strategy
- 18. The type of altruism is when the donor that performed the altruistic act is later reciprocated by the recipient