AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

INTRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This behavior occurs when an animal develops behavior through experience. This helps animals gain new skills for survival. What behavior is this called?
A
Learned Behavior
B
Inherited (Innate) Behavior
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In operant conditioning, an animal learns to perform a behavior more or less frequently through a reward or punishment that follows the behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -An animal adjusts its behaviour based on experience-that is, it learns-when experience at one time provides information that will be useful at a later time.

Detailed explanation-3: -Instinct, imprinting, conditioning, and imitation are the four types of animal behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -Types of learning include habituation, sensitization, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning, play, and insight learning. One of the simplest ways that animals learn is through habituation, where animals decrease the frequency of a behavior in response to a repeated stimulus.

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