Behavior BrainPOP

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of instinctive behavior?

• A puppy cuddling with its human owner

• A young child learning how to read

• A duckling swimming after its mother

  
  

Multiple Choice

What is the best definition of behavior?

• The way an organism acts in its environment

• The sum total of an organism's good and bad actions

• How an organism's body adapts to its environment

  
  

Multiple Choice

What can you infer about the instinctive behaviors of many baby animals?

• They usually revolve around avoiding humans 

• They usually revolve around obtaining food and safety

• They are usually fairly useless in the wild

  
  

Multiple Choice

What is an example of a human reflex?

• Avoiding dangerous streets and neighborhoods

• Feeling affection toward your friends

• Quickly moving back from the source of a sudden, startling noise

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of learned behavior in humans?

• Knowing which key opens a door

  
  

• Blinking or sneezing when you come out into a bright light

  
  

• Scratching mosquito bites

  
  

Multiple Choice

Courtship behavior helps organisms:

• Survive

• Learn

• Reproduce

Multiple Choice

In the movie, Tim says reflexes are "involuntary." What does this mean?

• People perform them without thinking

• People always dislike performing them

• People learn them before the age of five

  
  

Multiple Choice

A scientist places a rat in a maze on five occasions. He finds that the rat runs the maze faster each time. This demonstrates that:

• The rat has the capacity to learn new behaviors

• The rat's instincts are extremely sharp

• The rat is motivated by a desire to please humans

  
  

Multiple Choice

Tame animals do not attack humans, because they have been _____ to the presence of humans.

• Habituated

• Manipulated

• Stimulated