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Instinct and learning

Instinct and learning

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Biology

9th - 12th Grade

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Bingxue Wang

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13 Slides • 17 Questions

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Instinct and learning

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What is Innate behavior?

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Why innate behavior is important?

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Multiple Choice

A stimulus that triggers innate behaviors is called a(n)

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instinct.

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releaser.

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trigger.

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Signal

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What is the key message from the story of bee and hive?

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Multiple Choice

What is the key message from the story of bee and hive?

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Instinct is a complex inborn behavior

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Environmental factors can change innate behavior

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Multiple Choice

Which phrase best describes an instinctive behavior?

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usually performed incorrectly the first time

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often occurs where mistakes are not costly

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generally learned, flexible, and cumulative

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typically innate and relatively inflexible

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Why is behavior considered to be a mixture of both nature and nurture

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What would be the harm of having a captive animal intended for release imprint on its human handle?

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Multiple Choice

Habituation and imprinting illustrate that behaviors are made up of what?

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simple responses to complex stimuli

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both innate and learned components

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reversible stimulus-response learning

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unchanging responses to preset stimuli

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Multiple Choice

What type of behavior is inherited rather than learned?

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Instinct

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Innate behavior

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Imprinting

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Society

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Multiple Choice

This behavior happens when an animal forms an attachment to a place or an organism within a specific time period after birth or hatching.

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Migration

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Instinct

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conditioning

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imprinting

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Open Ended

Describe a behavior that you learned by imitation.

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​What type of learning is shown in this video?

Like Humans, Chimps Learn Behavior From One Another - YouTube

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Multiple Choice

​What type of learning is shown in this video?

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Innate

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Imitation

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Imprinting

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Habituation

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​-Operant conditioning: behavior increased or decreased by positive or negative reinforcement.

-B.F. Skinner and “Skinner boxes”

Big Bang Theory operant conditioning - YouTube

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Multiple Choice

If a dog starts salivating when a bell is rung, because he associates the bell with receiving a treat, this behavior is called __________________?

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Imprinting

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Instinct

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Innate Behavior

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Conditioning

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Multiple Choice

Animals are able to adapt to new situations because they can learn to

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modify their behaviors.

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perform innate behaviors.

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imprint on individuals.

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imitate their parents.

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Multiple Choice

A process in which an animal learns to associate a previously neutral stimulus with a behavior that was once triggered by a different stimulus is called

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habitual imprinting.

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role model imitation.

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classical conditioning.

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parental conditioning.

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How might you train a dog to do a trick using positive reinforcement?

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Ducklings that are shown a paper silhouette of a hawk initially freeze and cower. After repeated exposure to the silhouette they stop responding. What is this lack of response called?

Instinct and learning

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