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Behaviour
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Behaviour is a organisms response to change in its environment
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Innate
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Animals respond in the right way to a stimulus straight away, even though they have never done it before, eg a new born baby sucking from its moms nipple.
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Learned
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It is not inherited, you have t learn it which let's learning mammals to respond to changing conditions.
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Imprinting
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When an animal copies it's parents actions.
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Mixture
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Combine learned and innate behaviour.
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Conditioning
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Is another form of learned behaviour
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Classical conditioning
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Happens when an animal learns passively ie without actually trying, to associate a neutral stimulus
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Operant conditioning
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Trial and error learning is where an animal learns actively to associate an action with a reward
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Conditioning to train animals
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Humans use both conditioning to train animals to do certain things
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Animals need to communicate
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It can keep a group together
Warn the others of predators Babies communicate with parents |
