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