Animal Learning

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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Which of the following is NOT an example of a stimulus?

• Sight
• Sound
• Smell
• foraging 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

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 

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

• submission
• hibernation
• pheromone
• courtship

Using past learned experiences to respond to a new situation or challenge

• insight

• reflex

• instinct

• circadian rhythm

A behavior that is inherited rather than acquired.

• learned
• innate
• social
• trial and error

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

• reflex
• habituation
• territoriality
• classical conditioning

Squirrels in cities that are no longer afraid of humans are an example of ...

• Habituation
• Imprinting
• Insight Learning
• Classical Conditioning