Animal Behavior

A complex pattern of innate behavior.

• Insight

• Instinct

• Estivation

• Aggression

Physical space that contains the breeding area of an animal.

• Territory

• Hibernation

• Imprinting

• Language

Learning in which an animal uses previous experience to respond to a new situation.

• Instinct

• Language

• Insight or Reason

• Conditioning

Behavior that is used to intimidate another animal of the same species.

• Language

• Fight-or-Flight response

• Motivation

• Aggression

Learning by association.

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

• Innate behavior

• Both Classical and Operant Conditioning

Anything an animal does in response to a stimulus.

• Behavior

• Dominance hierarchy

• Aggression

• Conditioning

Use of symbols to represent ideas.

• Communication

• Conditioning

• Language

• Acquired behavior

State of reduced metabolism that occurs in mammals living under intense heat.

• Hibernation

• Imprinting

• Motivation

• Estivation

Exchange of information that results in a change of behavior.

• Language

• Communication

• Insight

• Instinct

Mobilizes the body for greater activity.

• Fight-or-Flight response

• Aggression

• Language

• Motivation