Instinct and learning

Instinct and learning

By Bingxue Wang

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What is Innate behavior?

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Why innate behavior is important?

Multiple Choice

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

• instinct.

• releaser.

• trigger.

• Signal

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

Multiple Choice

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

• Instinct is a complex inborn behavior

• Environmental factors can change innate behavior

Multiple Choice

Which phrase best describes an instinctive behavior?

• usually performed incorrectly the first time

• often occurs where mistakes are not costly

• generally learned, flexible, and cumulative

• typically innate and relatively inflexible

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

​Wild Turkeys Imprinting on a Human | BBC Earth - YouTube

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

Multiple Choice

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

• simple responses to complex stimuli

• both innate and learned components

• reversible stimulus-response learning

• unchanging responses to preset stimuli

​Japanese Macaques Washing Potatoes　ニホンザルの芋洗い行動 - YouTube

Multiple Choice

What type of behavior is inherited rather than learned?

• Instinct

• Innate behavior

• Imprinting

• Society

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.

• Migration

• Instinct

• conditioning

• imprinting

Open Ended

Describe a behavior that you learned by imitation.

​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?

• Innate

• Imitation

• Imprinting

• Habituation

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

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-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 __________________?

• Imprinting

• Instinct

• Innate Behavior

• Conditioning

Multiple Choice

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

• modify their behaviors.

• perform innate behaviors.

• imprint on individuals.

• imitate their parents.

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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

• habitual imprinting.

• role model imitation.

• classical conditioning.

• 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?