Animal Behavior.Academic

What is the definition of animal behavior?

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

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

• migration
• imprinting
• stimulus
• dominance

A period of inactivity that some animals experience in winter that allows them to survive on stored body fat.

• pheromone
• hibernation
• submission
• estivation

A chemical released by one animal that affects the behavior of another animal of the same species.

• submission
• hibernation
• pheromone
• courtship

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 

A way of learning that involves a reward or punishment is called?

• observational learning
• operant conditioning
• habituation
• playing

Every morning, Mrs. Jones opens a can of cat food using the electric can opener and feeds her cat. At dinnertime, Mrs. Jones used the electric can opener to open a can of soup. Upon hearing the whirring sound of the can opener, her cat came running. What type of behavior does her cat show?

• trial & error
• imprinting
• conditioning
• instinct

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A dog learns to expect food whenever a bell is rung. This is an example of what type of learning?

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

• instinct

• habituation

This picture is an example of which type of learning?

• insight learning

• imprinting

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

What is a seasonal movement of an animal to another location to find food called? 

• camouflage
• migration
• grouping
• mimicry