Chapter 18

Question 0

Learning

Answer 0

A change in behavior as a result of experience.

Question 1

Behavior

Answer 1

How an organism acts, what it does, and how it does it.

Question 2

Instinctive Behavior

Answer 2

Automatic, preprogrammed, genetically determined behavior.

Question 3

Territory

Answer 3

A space that an animal defends against others of the same species.

Question 4

The ascribing of human feelings, emotions, or meanings to the behavior of animals.

Answer 4

Anthropomorphism

Question 5

Learning that occurs when an involuntary, natural, reflexive response to a natural stimulus is transferred from the natural stimulus to a new stimulus.

Answer 5

Classical Conditioning

Question 6

The study of animal behaviors.

Answer 6

Ethology

Question 7

A change in behavior in which an animal ignores a stimulus after repeated exposure to it.

Answer 7

Habituation

Question 8

Learning in which past experiences are reorganized to solve new problems.

Answer 8

Insight

Question 9

A change in behavior that results from associating a stimulus with a response by either rewarding or punishing the behavior after it has occurred.

Answer 9

Operant Conditioning

Question 10

Any change in the internal or external environment of an organism that it can detect.

Answer 10

Stimulus

Question 11

The reaction of an organism to a stimulus.

Answer 11

Response