Behavior Flashcards
Natural nurture controversy
Animal behavior is instinctive vs. animal behavior is learned
Operant conditioning
Type of learning that associates a certain activity with punishment or reward
Operant
Tending to produce effects
Post parturition
After giving birth
Sensitive period
A stage early in an animals life when imprinting occurs
Social behavior
The ways members of the same species interact with each other
Socialization
The process of adapting to contact with others
Spraying
Staining vertical surfaces with a strong smelling urine
Stimulus response theory
All complex forms of behavior are complex muscular and glandular responses that can be observed and measured
Unconditioned response
A simple reflex behavior
Unconditioned stimulus
Sensory input that produces a simple reflex behavior
Wobble
A way to disorient a bird by dropping the hand it’s perched on to knock it off balance
Instrumental learning
Learning by trial and error
Habituation
Learning that certain objects and events have little bearing on survival and can be ignored
Fixed action patterns
Predictable behaviors of a species
