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Behavior |
all the actions an animal performs |
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Stimulus |
a signal that causes an organism to react in some way |
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Response |
an organisms reaction to a stimulus |
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Instinct |
an inborn behavior pattern that an animal performs correctly the first time |
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Learning |
the process that leads to changes in behavior based on practice or experience |
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Imprinting |
a process in which newly hatched birds or newborn mammals learn to follow the first object they see |
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Conditioning |
the process of learning to connect a stimulus or a response with a good or bad event |
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Trial-and-error learning |
a form of conditioning in which an animal learns to perform a behavior more and more skillfully |
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Insight learning |
the processof learning how to solve a problem or do something new by applying what is already known |