LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Skinner. In classical conditioning, an animal can be made to respond to a stimulus in an unorthodox manner.

Detailed explanation-2: -A stimulus is a change in the environment that produces a behavioral response. It may be an object or an event perceived through an animal’s senses. Stimuli may include the sight of food, the sound of a potential predator, or the smell of a mate.

Detailed explanation-3: -Behavioral response (effect) refers to how animals cope or deal with changes in their environment (cause). •Examples: Hibernation, Migration, Defense, Courtship. HIBERNATION. • Cold weather is the stimulus that causes some animals to hibernate to conserve food stored in the body (ex.

Detailed explanation-4: -Animal behavior is the study of how animals move in their environment, how they interact socially, how they learn about their environment, and how an animal might achieve cognitive understanding of its environment. The Nobel Prize winning scientist Niko Tinbergen developed four guiding questions for examining behavior.