Classification & Animal Behavior Vocab Review

Threatening behavior that one animal uses to gain control over another

• Aggression

• Courtship

• Dormancy

• Habituation

Specific area occupied and protected by an animal or group of animals

• Territory

• Taxon

• Aggression

• Habituation

Response of plants to periods of light and darkness

• Photoperiodism

• Thigmotropism

• Territory

• Migration

Learns to associate a stimulus with a response that would not normally occur 

• Classical Conditioning

• Communication

• Operant Conditioning

• Insight Learning

Periodic movement and return of animals from one place to another

• Migration

• Territory

• Thigmotropism

• Photoperiodism

Learning process in which an animal applies something it has already learned to a new situation without a period of trial and error; also called reasoning

• Insight Learning

• Migration

• Operant Conditioning

• Photoperiodism

Instinct, or born behavior; behavior that appears in a fully functional form the first time it is performed

• Innate behavior

• Insight Learning

• Classical Conditioning

• Communication

Learning based on early experiences; once the learning has occurred, the behavior cannot be changed

• Imprinting

• Innate behavior

• Insight Learning

• Migration

Learning process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus that neither rewards or harms it

• Habituation

• Imprinting

• Insight Learning

• Migration

Period of time during which a plant embryo is alive but not growing

• Dormancy

• Habituation

• Imprinting

• Innate behavior