Animal Behavior Review

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.

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

• innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• acquired traits

• imprinted behaviors

Which is an example of a learned behavior for humans?

• blinking
• riding a bike
• swallowing
• crying

Which is an example of a learned behavior?

• color of a dog's fur
• color blindness of a person
• the ability of a mouse to run a maze
• a person's ability to roll their tongue

Look at the picture.
A dog that sits when told to.

• innate

• learned

A (an) ____ is an environmental change that directly influences the activity of an organism.

• stimulus

• behavior

• innate response

• fixed action pattern

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

• response

• instinct

• attitude

• behavior

The process by which certain animals form strong attachments during an early-life critical period.

• migration
• imprinting
• stimulus
• dominance

A behavior that has been developed from experience.

• social
• innate
• learned
• aggression

A regular, long-distance change in location due to resource availability.

• stimulus
• imprinting
• migration
• classical conditioning