Nest-building is one example of an _____________ for birds.
What is instinct?
100
Learning by watching or listening to the behavior of others.
What is observational learning?
100
Famous Russian scientist who studied digestion and feeding behavior in dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
_____________ is an example of a chemical signal.
A. an ant's alarm scent
B. A honeybee's waggle dance
C. A cricket's chirp
D. A firefly's pattern of flashes
What is A. an ant's alarm scent?
200
A behavior that is present at birth.
What is innate behavior?
200
Behavior that helps attract a mate.
What is courtship behavior?
200
Learning in which an animal connects a behavior with a reward or a punishment.
What is trial-and-error learning?
200
Famous American scientist who studied behavior in rats.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
200
A way of communicating.
What is a channel?
300
An automatic response.
What is a reflex?
300
Phototropism. "Photo" means __________. "Tropic" means ____________.
What is light and turning?
300
Learning in which an animal connects one stimulus with another stimulus.
What is conditioning?
300
The study of sound and living things, including how animals communicate.
What is biocoustics?
300
Signals that other organisms can see.
What are visual signals?
400
Behavior that claims and defends an area.
What is territorial behavior?
400
Gravitropism. The stem of a plant grows upward to get ___________. The root grows downward to get ______________ and ____________ from the soil.
What is sunlight, nutrients, and water?
400
_____________ learning is the highest type of learning. It is most common in apes, monkeys, and humans.
What is insight?
400
Scientist who moved to East Africa to begin decades of study of wild chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
400
Nest-building, flying, and courtship are all examples of this kind of behavior.
What are innate behaviors?
500
Learning in which an animal bonds with the first object it sees.
What is imprinting?
500
Other things respond to the time of day just as plants do. Your _________ rate, blood ____________, and _______________ change with the time of day.
What is pulse, pressure, and temperature?
500
Learned behavior is behavior that results from _______________.
What is experience?
500
This scientist studied imprinting in baby geese. He found that once imprinting is set, it does not change.