Instinctive and learned behaviour
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- Created on: 17-04-13 21:44
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- Instinctive and learned behaviour
- What is behaviour
- An organism's reaction to any changes in its environment
- Instinctive behaviour is due to genetics (natural selection). It helps animals to increase their chances of survival
- Young animals associate themselves with another organism (usually the parent) and follows the adult's ways, e.g. eating the food they eat
- Trial and error learning (operant conditioning)
- Where an animal continuously learns to link an action with an appraisal or punishment
- Young animals associate themselves with another organism (usually the parent) and follows the adult's ways, e.g. eating the food they eat
- Conditioning
- Learning to associate a wanted outcome with an unrelated stimulus
- Training
- Animals can be trained to respond in a certain way
- What is behaviour
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