Ethology1

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

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

• Sight
• Sound
• Smell
• foraging 

The learning expressed here

• Sensitization

• Latency

• Classical Conditioning

• Habituation

The characteristics of a learned behaviour

• It can be reversed

• It occurs through experience

• Learning requires the help of another individual

• All of these options

Name the learning expressed here

• Operant conditioning

• Instrumental learning

• Imprinting

• Aversion

''whenever you come home wearing a baseball cap, you take your child to the park to play. So, whenever your child sees you come home with a baseball cap, he is excited because he has associated your baseball cap with a trip to the park.''...This demonstrates

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Imprinting

• None

In operant conditioning

• The response can be reinforced positively or negatively

• B.F Skinner conducted extensive research in this field

• This is also called instrumental conditioning

• Operant conditioning explains attachment to maternal figures

After hatching, the little geese will think that their mother is...

• the first adult goose they see

• the first living being that they see

• geese do not need a maternal parent

• geese do not have thoughts

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

• stimulus

• behavior

• innate response

• fixed action pattern