Animal Behavior

A bird that can easily outcompete other birds for food and that can produce many eggs has a high ___________.

• IQ
• mutation rate
• fitness
• adaptability

What behavior allows newborns to recognize and follow the first moving object they see?

• imprinting
• conditioning
• trial and error
• reflex

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

Which of the following is the best description of conditioning?

• A behavior in which newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving object they see

• A behavior in which an animal learns that a particular stimulus and its response to that stimulus will lead to a good result only.

• A behavior in which an animal learns that a particular stimulus and its response to that stimulus will lead to a bad result only.

• A behavior in which an animal learns that a particular stimulus and its response to that stimulus will lead to a good or bad result.

A chimpanzee using a stick to collect ants 

• learned behaviour
• instinct
• migration 
• hibernation 

Behavioral patterns that occur in daily intervals

• Insight Learning

• Circular Rhythms

• Circadian Rhythms

• Rhythmic Intervals

A process by which an animal decreases or stops its responses to a repetitive stimulus.

• Operant Conditioning

• Habituation

• Insight Learning

• Classical Conditioning

Behavior which benefits another organism and seems to give no gain the the benefactor is called:

• Habituaton
• taxis
• imprinting
• altruistic 

The study of animal behavior

• biology
• ecology
• ethology
• behaviorology

What is the definition of behavior

• animal's response to a stimulus
• animal's type of communication
• animal's care of offspring
• animal's main characterisitics