Game Theory

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