CK 12 Animal Behavior

the science of animal behavior

• ethology
• instinct
• colony
• cecum

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the ability of an animal, based on its genetic makeup, to respond to an environmental stimulus

• instinct
• thology
• imprinting
• intelligence

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a kind of behavior common to some newly hatched birds or newly born animals that causes them to adopt the first person, animal, or object they see as their parent

• imprinting
• colony
• scout bees
• stallion

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the ability to learn

• intelligence
• instinct
• imprinting
• ethology

process of learning by associating a certain response with a certain stimulus

• conditioning
• cloning
• colony
• cecum

how animals act when they interact with each other

• social behavior
• ingestive behavior
• ruminants
• grubs

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The manipulation of information by the mind is called: 

• Operant conditioning
• polyandrous
• imprinting
• cognition

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Behavior which benefits another organism and seems to give no gain the the benefactor is called:

• Habituaton
• taxis
• imprinting
• altruistic 

Songs, sounds, chemical, and vocalizations are used in the animal kingdom to:

• fix an action pattern
• show altruism
• teach cognition
• signal each other 

The training of animals usually involves ____. 

• imprinting
• classical conditioning 
• operant conditioning 
• cognitive learning