Chapter 5 Animal Behavior- Section 1

Question 1

What Consist of all the action is it performs?

Answer 1

Animal behavior.

Question 2

What are some examples of animal behavior?

Answer 2

Obtaining food, avoiding predators, finding a mate.

Question 3

What is a signal that causes an organism to react in someway.

Answer 3

Stimulus

Question 4

What is an organism’s reaction to the stimulus called?

Answer 4

Response

Question 5

What are our animal behavior is caused by?

Answer 5

A stimulus

Question 6

What is a response to a stimulus that is inborn and that an animal performs correctly the first time?

Answer 6

Instinct

Question 7

What is the process that leads to changes in behavior based my practice or experience?

Answer 7

Learning

Question 8

What are the four learned behaviors

Answer 8

Imprinting, conditioning, trial and error, and insight learning,

Question 9

What is a learned behavior where certain newly hatched birds and newborn mammals recognize and follow the first moving object they see?

Answer 9

Imprinting

Question 10

What are two things involved in imprinting?

Answer 10

It is a combination of instinct and learning

Question 11

What type of learning has a particular stimulus or response that leads to a good or bad outcome?

Answer 11

Conditioning

Question 12

What type of learning uses repeat practice that results in rewards and avoids behaviors that result in punishment?

Answer 12

Trial and error learning

Question 13

When you solve a problem or learn how to do something new by applying what you already know, without a period of trial and error, what type of learning are you using?

Answer 13

Insight learning