Chapter 51 Animal Behavior

What is the way an animal responds to its environment called?

• Behavior

• Adaptation

• Migration

• Communication

Why is a spider spinning a web an innate behavior?

• It learns how to spin the web from its mother.
• It learns how to spin a web through insight learning.  
• It is born knowing how to spin a web.
• It learns how to spin a web through observational learning.

What is the study of animal behavior?

• biology

• ecology

• ethology

• behaviorology

Which of the following is NOT an example of a stimulus?

• Sight
• Sound
• Smell
• foraging 

What is a signal to which an animal responds?

• stimulus

• repsonse

• behavior

• ethology

What is a specific external sensory stimulus that triggers a fixed action pattern?

• sign stimulus

• proximate cause

• ultimate cause

• innate

What is the cause of a behavior; how a behavior occurs?

• sign stimulus

• proximate cause

• ultimate cause

• innate

What is the name of the evolutionary reason for a behavior?

• sign stimulus

• proximate cause

• ultimate cause

• innate

What type of behavior is an animal born with?

• sign stimulus

• proximate cause

• ultimate cause

• innate

What type of innate behavior is an automatic response that occurs rapidly and is out of the animal's control?

• reflex

• instinct

• ethology

• ultimate cause