Animal Behavior (Honors Bio Ch 32)

The way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus.

• Behavior

• Ethology

• Stimulus

• Proximate

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What do we call a behavior that is gained from direct observations? 

• inherited or innate behaviors
• learned behaviors
• imprinting

What is it called when a newborn animal recognizes and follows the first moving object it sees? 

• shivering
• inherited or innate behaviors
• instincts
•  imprinting

What do you call behavior that has a stimulus-response connections that is strengthened by either a reward or punishment?

• imprinting

• operant conditioning

• instincts

• classical conditioning

A behavior that is always performed in the same way in response to a "sign stimulus" - mating dances, spiders spinning a web, nest building

• learned behavior

• imprinting

• associative behaviors

• FAP (fixed action pattern)

Behaviors that are passed on from parents to offspring without teaching or training are called what? 

• inherited or innate behaviors
• learned behaviors
• instincts
• imprinted behaviors

A kind of behavior common to some newly hatched birds or newly born animals that causes them to adopt the first person, animal or object they see as their parent.

• Fingerprinting
• Abandonement
• Imprinting
• Rejection

A behavior which once it begins must go until it is completed. It is categorized as an instinctive behavior.

• imprinting
• habituation
• fixed action pattern
• hibernation

Physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle, responding primarily to light and darkness in an organism's environment.

• hibernation
• migration
• circadian rhythms
• imprinting

This behavior is also called instinctive behaviors. An instinct is the ability of an animal to perform a behavior the first time it is exposed to the proper stimulus.

• Sensitive period

• Agnostic behavior

• Learned behavior

• Innate behavior

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