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animalbehavior
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| behavior | all the actions an animal performs |
| stimulus | a signal that causes an organism to react in some way |
| response | organism's reaction to a stimulus |
| learning | process that leads to changes in behvaior based on practice or experience |
| imprinting | process in which newly hatched birds or newborn mammals learn to follow the first object they see |
| conditioning | process of learning to connect a stimulus or a response with a good or bad event |
| trial-and-error | form of conditioning in which an animal learns to perform a behavior more and more skillfully |
| insight | process of learning how to solve a problem or do something new by applying what is already known |
| instinct | inborn, performed correctly the first time |
| imprinting, conditioning, trial and error, insight | What are the 4 different kinds of learning? |
| survival and reproduction | What two ways do most behaviors help an animal? |
| True! | T/F: a bird building a nest is an example of an instinct behavior |
| FALSE. | T/F: an earthworm crawling away from bright light is a conditioned behavior |
| True! | T/F: all learned behaviors depend partly on inherited traits |
| imprint | Once _____________ learning takes place, it cannot be changed. |
| salivate (drool) at the ringing of a bell | What did Pavlov condition a dog to do? And how? |
| FALSE. | T/F: Learning to ride a bike is an example of insight learning. |
Created by:
Mills, Susan
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