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Behavior |
Any observable activity of a living animal. |
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Innate |
Behaviors are performed in reasonably complete form the first time an animal of the right age and motivational state encounters a particular stimulus |
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Habituation |
Decline in response to a repeated stimulus |
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Trial-and-error learing |
Animals acquire new and appropriate responses to stimuli through experience |
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Operant conditioning |
And animal learns to perform a behavior to receive a reward or to avoid punishment |
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Insight learning |
Animals seem able to solve problems suddenly, without the benefit of prior experience |
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Ethology |
Study of animal behavior |
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Imprinting |
Form of learning in which an animals nervous system is rigidly programmed to learn a certain thing only during a certain period of development |
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Communication |
Production of a signal by one organism that causes another organism to change its behavior in a way beneficial to both |
