Behaviour
- Created by: Bethany
- Created on: 06-05-13 20:19
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- Behaviour
- Innate / Inherited
- Reflex actions are simple inherited behaviours, e.g. sneezing and blinking
- Often protect us from dangerous stimuli
- Reflex actions are simple inherited behaviours, e.g. sneezing and blinking
- Behaviour is how an organism responds to things going on in its environment
- It can either be inherited or learned - but most behaviour relies on a combination of the two
- Both genes and environment play a part in influencing behaviour
- Learned
- Lets animals respond to changing conditions
- Habituation - if keep giving an animal a stimulus that isn't beneficial or harmful to it, it quickly learns not to respond to it
- Mixture of learned + innate
- Imprinting is when an animal learns to recognise its parents and instinctively follows them
- Innate / Inherited
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