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Behavior
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The way an organism reacts to stimuli in its environment
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Innate behavior
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Instincts; appear in fully functional form even though the animal has had no previous experience with stimuli.
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Learning
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Changes in behavior as a result of experience
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Habituation
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A process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus that neither rewards or harms the animal.
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Classical conditioning
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A form of learning in which a certain stimulus comes to produce a particular response
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Operant conditioning
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A type of learning in which an animal learns to behave in a certain way through repeated practice, to receive a reward or avoid punishment.
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Insight learning
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a type of behavior in which an animal applies something it has alreadly learned to a new situation, without a period of trial and errror; also called reasoning.
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Imprinting
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Type of behavior based on early experience, once imprinting has occurred, the behavior cannot be changed.
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