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SURVEY
THROUGH
THE
KINGDOMS
BEHAVI
OR
in animals
and plants
INNATE BEHAVIORS
Innate behaviors – instinct, inborn
i.e. Behaviors that don’t have to be taught or
learned…
 Ex. Spiders building a first web.
 Ex. Birds migrating (What is a benefit of
migration???)
 Ex. Your reflexes
 Taxis: moving towards or away from a stimulus
 Kinesis: random movement in response to a
stimulus
INNATE BEHAVIORS
LEARNED BEHAVIORS
 Learned behavior – developed over time
1. Classical Conditioning – mental connection to stimulus
 Ex. Pavlov’s dogs
LEARNED BEHAVIORS
2. Operant Conditioning – learning to behave a certain
way (with rewards/punishments)
 Ex. Trial and Error – learning with mistakes (mouse in maze)
ANIMAL BEHAVIORS
LEARNED BEHAVIORS
3. Insight Learning: reasoning,
prior knowledge applied to
new situations
LEARNED BEHAVIORS
3. Insight Learning: reasoning, prior knowledge
applied to new situations
OTHER BEHAVIORS
Habituation:
ignoring of
stimuli that
neither
harms nor
rewards
OTHER
BEHAVIORS
Estivation
 Inactivity in order
to avoid hot
temperatures in
summer
 Ex. Cane toads
Hibernation
 Inactivity in order
to avoid low
temperatures in
winter
 Ex. Bears
OTHER BEHAVIORS
Imprinting – attaches to first moving object
and assumes object will be caretaker
SOCIAL BEHAVIORS
 Social behaviors
 Courtship
 Competition
 Aggression (agonistic behavior – a display to look bigger, stronger
and more threatening)
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
Jane Goodall – observed chimps in natural
habitat, revolutionized field of animal behavior
ACTIVITY 27: PLANT BEHAVIORS
1. Look at the three plants. Does each
appear to have gravitotropism,
thigmotropism, or phototropism?
Define each plant behavior.
ACTIVITY 28: ANIMAL BEHAVIORS
An innate behavior is one that an organism is born with, and one
that it does not have to learn. This can also include “fight -orflight” behaviors, which are of ten controlled by hormone levels
and chemicals within the body.
1.Describe at least three examples of innate behaviors and
describe how each benefits the organism involved.
1.Provide an explanation, in at least two sentences, for how this
“fight-or-flight” response may have evolved.