AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Birds staying away from a garden that has a new scarecrow, however, if the position of the scarecrow is not changed on a regular basis, the birds learn to ignore it and go into the garden unafraid. This is an example of ____
A
Customization
B
Learned behavior
C
Habituation
D
Classical Conditioning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sensory adaptation involves repeated stimulation of receptors until they stop responding. Example 1: After time, birds learn to ignore scare crows that previously caused them to flee.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Imprinting is both innate and learned. Imprinting itself is the behavior of a newborn organism to identify and follow another organism or object that appears to be alive, treating it as it would a mother animal.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Animal behavior includes all the ways animals interact with other organisms and the physical environment. Behavior can also be defined as a change in the activity of an organism in response to a stimulus, an external or internal cue or combo of cues.

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