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Animal Behavior / Ethology ExamQuestion & Answers 2025
Ethology - Correct Answers ✅✅The study of animal behavior
Ethogram - Correct Answers ✅✅A documentation of behavior:
1) Behavior
2) Definition of Behavior
3) Time Spent
Behavior - Correct Answers ✅✅What an animal does and how it
does it. Essential for survival / reproduction. Subject to natural
selection over time
Behavior is a result of? - Correct Answers ✅✅Genetic and
environmental factors (Habitat / surroundings make you act differently)
Innate Behaviors - Correct Answers ✅✅Behaviors that are
developmentally fixed. Unlearned behaviors / Instinctive behaviors. Can
be modified with learning
Learned Behaviors - Correct Answers ✅✅Behaviors that are
modified by experience
, Animal Behavior / Ethology Exam
Question & Answers 2025
Imprinting - Correct Answers ✅✅A form of instinctive learning
that can only occur during a short, genetically determined interval in an
animal's life. (Baby Geese, Sparrows, etc.)
Associative Learning - Correct Answers ✅✅The ability of many
animals to associate one feature of their environment with another
feature.
Classical Conditioning - Correct Answers ✅✅An animal's
involuntary response to a stimulus becomes associated with another
stimulus at the same time (ringing bell and feeding dog)
Operant Conditioning - Correct Answers ✅✅Modification of
voluntary behavior in response to consequences of the behavior
(mouse receiving food (retries) or a shock (avoids) from a button).
Habituation - Correct Answers ✅✅An animal learns by experience
to not respond to a repeated stimulus that has neither positive nor
negative effects (pigeons in cities don't respond to people)
Observational Learning - Correct Answers ✅✅An animal imitates
the behavior of another individual
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