Practice Test on Animal Behavior

It can occur in response to an internal or external stimulus.

• evolution
• natural selection
• predation
• Behavior

It is an environmental change that directly influences the activity of an organism.

• growth
• adaptation
• stimulus
• evolution

The smell of food, someone calling your name or a sight of a predator are _______________ stimulus

• internal
• external
• delayed
• insignificant

What are the two factors that influences behavior?

• Age and family background
• weight and height
• genetics and past experiences
• friends and enemies

The answer to what triggers a response to a stimulus is found in studying the internal biology of an animal. This is ___

• True
• False
• Neither true nor false
• cannot be determined

Behaviors that are genetically based and not linked to past experiences are called ___________

• Bad behavior
• Good behavior
• Innate Behavior
• Learned Behavior

A stimulus that triggers an innate response that the animal does not control; not directly influenced by past experience

• Fixed Action Pattern
• operant conditioning
• Imprinting
• classical conditioning

Result from an interaction between innate behaviors and past experiences within a particular environment.

• Learned Behavior
• Bad behavior
• Innate Behavior
• Good Behavior

The decrease in an animal’s response after repeatedly being exposed to a stimulus; has no positive or negative effects

• Habituation
• Operant Conditioning
• Classical Conditioning
• Imprinting

It occurs when an association is made between two different kinds of stimuli.

• Habituation
• Operant Conditioning
• Classical Conditioning
• Imprinting