AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Learned behaviors, even though they may have innate components or underpinnings, allow an individual organism to adapt to changes in the environment. Learned behaviors are modified by previous experiences; examples of simple learned behaviors include habituation and imprinting.

Detailed explanation-2: -Learned behavior is behavior that occurs only after experience or practice. Methods of learning include habituation, observational learning, conditioning, play, and insight learning.

Detailed explanation-3: -A behavior that an organism is born with is called an innate behavior. These types of behaviors are inherited. They don’t have to be learned. Innate behavior patterns occur the first time an animal responds to a particular internal or external stimulus.

Detailed explanation-4: -What is a learned behavior? Learned behavior is one that is not innate, instinctive or “canalized” but rather is acquired through practice or a specific experience with an external event.

Detailed explanation-5: -Learned behaviors come from experience and are not present in an animal at its birth. Through trial and error, memories of past experiences and observations of others, animals learn to perform certain tasks. Generally, learned behaviors are not inheritable and must be taught to or learned by each individual.