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Stimulus
Behavior and Evolution
Learning
Habituation
Conditionings
100
What is the single specific reaction to a stimulus?
Response
100
Give 1 animal example of behavior and evolution
A moth
100
What is learning?
When an animal alters their behavior as a result of experience.
100
Habituation is the simplest type of what?
learning
100
give your own example of operant learning
answers vary
200
What is a stimulus?
Any kind of signal that carries information and can be detected
200
Why is animal behavior important?
Because it helps survive and reproduce
200
Why is acquired behavior another name for learning?
Because these behaviors develop over time
200
What is habituation?
a process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus
200
When does operant learning occur?
When an animal learns to behave a certain way through practice in order to receive a reward or punishment.
300
Give at least 2 examples of a stimuli
Light, sound, odor, and heat
300
How are physical traits determined?
Through a set of genetic instruction
300
How do innate behaviors appear?
in fully functional form the first time they are done
300
Give 1 example of of habituation
shore ragworm
300
What is the most famous example of classical conditioning?
The work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov in the 1900's
400
Can all animals detected all examples of stimuli?
no
400
What kind of behavior can evolve by natural selection?
physical characteristics
400
Give 1 example of innate behavior
Spider web, birds nest
400
Does habituation reward or harm the animal?
trick question....it neither harms or rewards the animal
400
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
500
What did the video with the bears show?
Learned Behavior
500
What are many behaviors influenced by?
genes
500
Name at least 3 major types of learning
insight learning, habituation, classical and operant conditionings
500
Why is a shore ragworm an example of habituation?
Because it has habituated to the stimulus
500
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.