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 do we call a behavior that is learned from observations?

• inherited behaviors

• learned behaviors

• imprinting

• acquired traits

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

• inherited or innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• acquired traits

• imprinted behaviors

A behavior animals are born knowing how to do is an __________.

• example

• animal

• option

• instinct

When a bird uses mud and grass to build a nest, it's demonstrating...

• environmental influences
• learned behavior
• recessive traits
• instinct

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Which is an example of a learned behavior?

• blinking
• riding a bike
• swallowing
• crying

Which of these is not an instinctive behavior?

• a bird building a nest

• a turtle burying its eggs

• a bear hibernating in winter

• a horse pulling a plow

The following are all examples of instincts except:

• Blinking
• Breathing
• Talking
• Swallowing

TURTLES RETURNING BACK TO BEACH WHERE THEY WERE BORN TO LAY THEIR EGGS IS AN EXAMPLE OF

• LEARNED BEHAVIOR

• INNATE BEHAVIOR

TADPOLES KNOWING HOW TO SWIM AND AVOID DANGER AS SOON AS THEY ARE BORN IS AN EXAMPLE OF ..

• LEARNED BEHAVIOR

• INNATE BEHAVIOR