Animal Behavior

Which behavior is genetically based and NOT linked to past experiences?

• innate behavior

• habituation

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

Why is a spider spinning a web an innate behavior?

• It learns how to spin the web from its mother.
• It learns how to spin a web through insight learning.  
• It is born knowing how to spin a web.
• It learns how to spin a web through observational learning.

A signal to which an organism responds.

• imprinting
• habituation
• classical conditioning
• stimulus

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What is habituation?

• The process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli.

• The process of responding more strongly over time to repeated stimuli.

• A change in an organism’s behavior or thought as a result of experience.

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Baby geese follow their mother.

• sensitization

• habituation

• imprinting

• classical conditioning

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Getting used to snoring

• operant conditioning

• habituation

• classical conditioning

• sensitization

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This behavior happens when you use your prior learning to solve a new math problem.

• Insight
• Conditioning
• Innate Behavior
• Instinct

This behavior happens when a child learns to walk by watching his older brother.

• Insight
• Conditioning
• Observational

• Instinct

A mouse navigates a maze because he knows he will be rewarded with cheese.

• Insight

• Operant conditioning

• Classical conditioning

• Reflex

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A man has developed a hard time sleeping after hearing all kinds of frightening sounds on his first night at a new home.

• Habituation

• Sensitisation

• Imprinting

• Innate

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