AP biology: animal behavior

Which is an example of innate behavior?

• pond ducks flocking to be fed

• bears leaning to catch fish

• human babies speaking words

• birds chirping when hatched

Which behavior is genetically based because an animal is born knowing how to do it. It is NOT linked to past experiences?

• innate behavior

• habituation

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

A _________ is defined as a way an animal responds to a stimulus.

• response

• instinct

• attitude

• behavior

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This type of innate behavior occurs when an animal carries out a specific set of actions, in sequence, in response to a sign stimulus.

• imprinting

• fixed action pattern

• habituation

• classical conditioning

The study of animal behavior

• biology
• ecology
• ethology
• behaviorology

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When animal learns to ignore harmless stimuli like a scarecrow, what type of learning is this? 

• innate learning
• classical conditioning 
• habituation 
• trial and error learning 

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.

Getting use to something after being exposed to it for a long period of time and ignoring it is an example of which type of learned behavior?

• insight learning

• playing

• habituation

• observational learning

What is an example of classical conditioning?

• Pavlov and the dog

• spinning a web to catch prey

• sneezing

A response to a certain stimulus becomes connected to a substitute stimulus

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

• Imprinting

• Insight Learning