AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

INTRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
An organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.
A
reflex
B
habituation
C
territoriality
D
classical conditioning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Habituation: an organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together; these events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning).

Detailed explanation-2: -Habituation: an organism’s decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Habituation is a psychological learning process wherein there is a decrease in response to a stimulus after being repeatedly exposed to it. This concept states that an animal or a human may learn to ignore a stimulus because of repeated exposure to it.

Detailed explanation-4: -The concept of habituation was formalized in the classical conditioning research of Pavlov and Anrep (2003), who observed that animals typically show an initial behavioral and physiological response to novel stimuli, such as a light or noise, even though they do not have any significance in the environmental context.

Detailed explanation-5: -Habituation is defined as a behavioral response decrement that results from repeated stimulation and that does not involve sensory adaptation/sensory fatigue or motor fatigue.

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