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Stimulus
Behavior and Evolution
Learning
Types of Behaviors
Conditionings
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Behavior is what?

Response to a stimulus

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Altruism is

when a behavior may be negative towards and individual but benefit the groups survival.

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What is learning?
When an animal alters their behavior as a result of experience.
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Birds migrating is an example of what type of stimulus?

Environmental

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give your own example of operant learning
answers vary
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What is a stimulus?
Any kind of signal that carries information and can be detected
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Why is animal behavior important?
Because it helps survive and reproduce
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Why is acquired behavior another name for learning?
Because these behaviors develop over time
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What is habituation?
a process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus
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When does operant learning occur?
When an animal learns to behave a certain way through practice in order to receive a reward or punishment.
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Give at least 2 examples of a stimuli
Light, sound, odor, and heat
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A bird that decorates it's nest using colorful rocks and does a showy dance for a mate is exhibiting what behavior?

courtship

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How do innate behaviors appear?
in fully functional form the first time they are done
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Fish schooling is an example of what?

group behavior

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What is the most famous example of classical conditioning?
The work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov in the 1900's
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Can all animals detected all examples of stimuli?
no
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What kind of behavior can evolve by natural selection?
physical characteristics
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Is a reproductive advantage more likely to happen in a group or as an individual.

Group

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A learned behavior where an animal forms an attachment to another animal at a critical moment in their life is called?

Imprinting

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Give 1 examples of operant learning, and 1 example of insight learning
operant learning: a rat learning to act a certain way insight learning: math
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If your cat starts meowing at you as you walk near their treat cabinet, it is an example of___________

Learned Behavior

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What are many behaviors influenced by?
genes
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Name at least 3 major types of learning
insight learning, habituation, classical and operant conditionings
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Birds migrating is an example of an_________

innate behavior

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What is insight learning?
When you take something new and you apply it to a new situation so you don't have to go through trial and error.