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| what an animal does and how it does it |
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| study of how organisms interact with their environments |
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| behavior that is innate or inherited |
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| innate behavior that follows a regular, unvarying pattern. |
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Animals copy behavior of another animal w/o experience of prior positive behavior |
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| innate program for getting a behavior only if stimulus is experienced during critical period. |
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| Limited time when an even can occur; stages where an organism has sensitivity to a particular environmental stimulus. |
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| animals act to substitute stimulus rather than regular stimulus. |
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| Animal recognizes that 2 or more events are connected. |
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Operant Conditioning (Trial and Error Learning) |
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Animal connects own behavior with particular environmental response stimuli - Positive reinforcement: they repeat the behavior
- Negative Reinforcement: they avoid the behavior
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| you're put into a new environment and learn to perform behavior with a desirable outcome. |
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| Learned behavior that lets animal to disregard a meaningless stimuli |
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