Instinctual or Learned What is a behavior A behavior is any action a living thing makes Almost everything you do is a behavior What is a stimulus A stimulus or stimuli if more than one is an event that causes a living things behavior ID: 319530
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Animal Behaviors:
Instinctual or Learned?Slide2
What is a behavior?
A
behavior
is any action a living thing makes!
Almost everything you do is a behavior!Slide3
What is a stimulus?
A
stimulus
(or stimuli if more than one) is an event that causes a living thing’s behavior.
Stimulus:
Failing a test.
Behavior: You start studying before following tests.
Stimulus: Burning your hand in the oven.Behavior: Wearing an oven-mit.
Stimulus:
The smell of good food.
Behavior:
Your mouth starts to water.Slide4
Now You T
ry!
Someone sneaks up behind you and yells “BOO!”. You jump and scream.
Your pencil falls on the floor so you bend down and pick it up.
Someone waves their hand close to your face and you begin to blink.Slide5
Types of Behavior
Instinctual Behaviors-
behaviors that occur without experience; a pattern of activities that is not learned
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Living things are born with these!
Learned Behavior- behaviors that are changed by experience.Someone or something taught this to you!
Now, let’s look at our examples on the board! Which are learned? Which are instinctual?