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Voc. for Homeostasis
vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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1. 1. Homeostasis | 1. regulation of an organism’s internal, life-maintaining conditions. |
2. Stimulus | - something that causes a change |
3. Response | the way an organism reacts to a stimulus. |
4. Innate behavior | behavior that an organism is born with and does not have to be learned, such as a reflex or instinct. |
5. Reflex | simple innate behavior, such as yawning or blinking, that is an automatic response and does not involve a message to the brain. |
6. Instinct | complex pattern of innate behavior, such as spinning a web that can take weeks to complete. |
7. Migration | instinctive seasonal movement of animals to find food or to reproduce in better conditions. |
8. Hibernation | behavioral adaptation for winter survival in which an animal’s activity is greatly reduced, its body temperature drops, and body processes slow down. |
9. Estivation | inactivity in hot, dry months |
10. Learned behavior | a behavior that is developed through experience or practice. |
11. Imprinting | occurs when an animal forms a social attachment to another organism during a specific period following birth or hatching. |
12. Trial and error | a learned behavior that may take many tries to learn. |
13. Conditioning | occurs when the response to a stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus. An example is teaching a dog tricks or to search for something. |
14. Cognitive behavior | a learned behavior that involves thinking, reasoning, and problem solving. |