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30 Cards in this Set
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What is a STIMULUS?
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A signal in which an organism responds
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What is the action of your stomach growling, phone ringing and alarm chiming called?
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a stimulus
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What is it called when you eat when hungry, answer the phone when its ringing, and wakeup to an alarm chiming?
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A response
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What are the two types of behavior?
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learned and innate
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What is an INHERITED BEHAVIOR?
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a behavior that is fully functional the first time it is used
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What are the two types of inherited behavior?
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automatic and instinctive
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A toad sticking out its tounge to catch prey is an example of what?
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inherited behavior
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What is a REFLEX?
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The simple automatic response that involves no conscious control
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blinking after having something thrown in your face is an example of what?
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A reflex
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What is FIGHT OR FLIGHT?
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A response that mobilizes the body for greater activity
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What is your heart beating faster, your hands getting clammy, your skin getting cold, respiration increasing, and your body shaking an example of?
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Fight or Flight
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What is an INSTINCT?
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A complex pattern of innate behaviors. It begins when an animal recognizes a stimulus and ends when the behavior has been preformed
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What is a grey goose retrieving its eggs and example of?
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Instinct
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What is a COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR?
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a type of behavior in which an animal sends out stimuli in order to attract a member of the opposite sex
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What are spiders bringing large nuptial gifts an example of?
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Courtship behaviors
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What is DOMINANCE HIERARCHY?
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A form of social ranking within a group in which some individualw are more subordinate than others. Its usually the oldest and strongest.
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What is a CIRCADIAN RYTHM?
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a 24 hour day/ night cycle
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What is MIGRATION?
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seasonal cycle in which an animal moves from place to place
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What is HIBERNATION/ ESTIVATION?
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a state in which body temps drop, oxygen decreases, breathing declines, and animals go into a deep sleep
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What is a LEARNED BEHAVIOR?
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An altering of a behavior as a result of an experience
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Reading, riding a bike, and playing sports are examples of what kind of a behavior?
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Learned behavior
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What is HABITUATION?
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learning process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus that niether rewards or harms it.
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What is getting so used to a grandfather clock, you don't hear it called?
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Habituation
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What is IMPRINTING?
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A specific critical time of life when an animal forms a social attatchment to another object- usually its mother.
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What is OPERANT CONDITIONING or TRIAL AND ERROR?
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type of learning in which an animal recieves a reward for making a particular response
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What is a skinner box and example of?
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Trial and Error or Operant Conditioning
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What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?
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learning process in which an animal makes a mental connection between a stimulus and some kind of reward or punishment
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What is Pavlov's dog an example of?
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Classical Conditioning
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What is INSIGHT?
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When an animal applies something that it has already learned to a new situation without a pd of trial and error.
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What is humans doing math an exmaple of?
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Insight
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