Innate and Learned Behaviour - Edexcel
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- Innate and Learned Behaviour
- Innate Behaviour
- Inherited behaviour
- Can be a simple reflex or a complicated behaviour (e.g. courtship ritual)
- Reflex action are inherited behaviours and protects us from dangerous stimuli
- Inherited behaviour
- Learned Behaviour
- Lets animals respond to changing conditions
- Animals can learn from previous experiences
- Habituation
- Giving an animal a stimulus thats isn't beneficial or harmful to it - it learns not to respond to it
- By ignoring the stimuli, animals spend more energy and time efficiently
- Giving an animal a stimulus thats isn't beneficial or harmful to it - it learns not to respond to it
- Lets animals respond to changing conditions
- Imprinting
- When an animal learns to recognise its parents and follows them
- Combination of learned and innate behaviour
- Occurs in species who move soon after birth.
- Newborn has an instinct to follow the first moving object they see - usually parent who helps them survive
- BUT the animal has no innate instinct of what parent looks like - they have to learn this
- Newborn has an instinct to follow the first moving object they see - usually parent who helps them survive
- When an animal learns to recognise its parents and follows them
- Innate Behaviour
- Ducklings usually imprint on parents. BUT if reared from birth by a human, the hu
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