BEHAVIOR PROJECT

WHAT IS A BEHAVIOR?

INNATIVE VS. LEARNED BEHAVIORS

• An innative behavior is like an instinct that appears fully functional.
• A learned behavior is a response to a stimulus, something they develop the habit to learn.

COURTSHIP

• A peacock showing his feathers
• How frogs use vocalization to attract its mates

OPERANT CONDITIONING

• In a Skinner box experiment a rat gets food as a reward for its acceptable behavior
• A bird goes looking for food, trys to search with its beak down many holes
• The bird finds food after a search, the food is his reward.

INSIGHT BEHAVIOR

• Setting up a camera to see what an animal does when your away
• Seeing how animals react around different species to tell if their sociable

IMPRINTING

• A women finds a new born born puppy and takes it in
• The puppy doesnt recognize her mother as her mother but the women instead.
• A sea turtle group washes away and the baby seaturtle wont take in any other turtles as their mom.

HABITUATION

• The simplest type of learning
• Animals stop responses nor harms another animal.

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

• Learning by association
• When animals make connections between stimulus and reward or punishment.
• Ivan Pavlov studies the innative behavior or salvation in dogs.

MIGRATION

• Animals like birds migrate to the south where it's warm
• Fish migrate around the ocean.

SOCIAL HIERARCHY

• Dominance
• Animals like lions and tigers and bears protect eachother
• Monkeys help clean eachother off and it helps both because the one that's cleaning gets food off the monkey they are cleaning